 | 1803 - 322 Seiten
...little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. No. VII. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1750, O qui perpetua mundum ratione gubernas, Terrarum coelique sator !....... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 Seiten
...who has so little knowh-dge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts,...multiply the -griefs which he purposes to remove. Rambler, vol. r, p. 35. ,' The necessity of erecting ourselves to some de' gree of intellectual Signity,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 380 Seiten
...little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing, but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. N° 7. TUESDAY, APRIL 10. 1750. 0 q ui fcrpetua mundum rat ion c gubcrnas. Terra rum cociiquc Sat or... | |
 | 1806 - 348 Seiten
...little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing, but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. N° 7. TUESDAY, APRIL 10. 1750. 0 qui perpetua mvndum rationr gvbcrnnt, Ttrrarum coeliqut Sator ?——... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 352 Seiten
...little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing, but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove. N°7. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1750. O quiperpetua mundum rations gubernas, Terrarum ccelique sator ! Disjice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 Seiten
...little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his ovrn dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove*. " See Dr. Johnson'* Life of Covrley, vol. ix. p. 1O. 16, D4 . NUMB. 7. TuESDx\y, April 10, 1750. 0... | |
 | 1810 - 464 Seiten
...little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove*. * See Dr. Joluison's Life of Cowley, -vol. ix. p. 10. 16. NUMB. 7. TUESDAY, April 10, 1750. 0 qui perpetud... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 Seiten
...little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.* * See Dr. Johnson's Life of Cowley, vol. ix. p. 10, 16. No. 7. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1750, O qulperpetuA... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 Seiten
...little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.* * See Dr. Johnson's Life of Cowley, vol. is. p. 10, 16, No. 7. TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1750. 0 qui perpetud... | |
 | William Giles - 1811 - 268 Seiten
...little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.' ' For how shonUl ills, which from our passions flow, Be cban^'d by Alric's heat, or Russia's snow !... | |
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He would, upon the trial, have been soon convinced, that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind: and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life... 
