 | David Simpson - 1780 - 628 pages
...OOK round the habitable World,how few JCnowtheirownGood,orknowing it, purfue. How How vpid ofReafon are our Hopes and Fears ! What in the Conduct of our Life appears So well defign'd, fo luckily begun. But, when we have ourWifh,we wi(h undone ? HYMN CCCXX. 1 TMSMISSuswiththyBIeffing,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 388 pages
...thefe, it is not much matter what we want befides; for we have already enough to make us happy. 3. OOK round the habitable world, how few. Know their own good; or, knowing it, purfue* How void of reafon are our hopes and fears! What in the conduft of our life appears So So well... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...PAUCI DIGNOSCIRE TOSSUNT VF.RA BORA, ATOJJX lLt.lt MULTUM DIVIRSA, RIMOTA IRRORIS NEBULA. . -HOW TIVT KNOW THEIR OWN GOOD; OR KNOWING IT, PURSUE? HOW VOID OF REASON ARE OUR HOPKS AND TEARS ? DRYDIS. THE folly of human wiflies and puriuits has always been a (landing fubjeft... | |
 | 1794 - 450 pages
...illis niultum diversa, remota Erroris nebula —— — juv. »AT. x. 1. " Look round the habitual world, how few , " Know their own good, or knowing it pursue ? " How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, " Prompts the fond wish, or lifts the suppliant voice ?"... | |
 | 1795 - 758 pages
...round the'habitable world, how few Know their own good, osknowing it, purfue-. Hn'.v void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears, So well defign'd, fo luckily begun, But, when we have our wifB, we with' undone ? Whole houfes, of their whole... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wifdom from Juvenal, by Dryden : ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, purfue ! How void of reafon are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 380 pages
...me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with another bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Pryden : ' Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own...! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone !' Even the men that are distinguished... | |
 | 1803 - 440 pages
...Give me leave to fortify my unlearned reader with mother bit of wisdom from Juvenal, by Dry den. Loek round the habitable world, how few Know their own...! What in the conduct of. our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But when we have our wisji, we wish undone ! Even the men that are distinguished... | |
 | 1803 - 290 pages
...dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota '< Err or ii nebula. • • . - , i .-../. How few Know their own good ; or, knowing it, pursue ? How void of reason are our hopes and fears .' DKYDEN-. •It* -«».» THE folly of human wishes and pursuits has always been a standing subject... | |
 | 1803 - 402 pages
...Gangem, puuci dignoscere possunt Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota Erroris nebuii Juv. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. DRYDEN. IN my last Saturday's paper I laid down some thoughts upon devotion in general, and shall here... | |
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LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well... 
