 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 488 pages
...endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings...nature ; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependance on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings...power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the Ivy for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of almv : tn rail unnn tlip sun fnr tipnfp nnrl... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind for the only blessings...put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance, every... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dépendance the seventy -second year of my life, with more strength...and greater vigour of mind, than I think is common a — This distinction of seasons is produced only bv imagination operating on luxury. To temperance,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind for the only blessings...put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. — This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind for the only blessings...put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. — This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind for the only blessings...put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. — This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance,... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings...should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly. " The distinction of seasons, as it respects the mind, is produced only by imagination... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only >lessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity...the condition of nature ; to call upon the sun for >eace and gayety, to deprecate the clonds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence I — This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance,... | |
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Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and... 
