 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...pauci dignoacere poesunt Vera dona, atque »Hie multum diversa, remota Erroris nebula Ëî. Sat. II Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue? How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice. Prompts the fond wish, or 1Øà the suppliant voice ? JDryd.... | |
 | Joel Pinney - 1838 - 256 pages
...known, e man to abandon it, as it is to persuade a f oohsh oae to make trial O f it. INDOLENCE LUXURY. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue !" MAN was not created weak and distempered; nor do we learn from ancient history that he began to... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...hearts." Give e'en a fool the employment he desires, And he soon finds the talent it requires. — COOPER. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their...! What in the conduct of our life appears So well design'd, so luckily begun, But, when we have our wish, we wish undone. — DRYDEN. The architect of... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1839 - 896 pages
...years since he had been even startled into naming her otherwise than as Miss Grenfell. CHAPTER XI. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What, in the conduct of our life, appears So well design'd, — so luckily begun, — But, when we have our wish, we wish undone ! DRYDEH'S JUVENAL.... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...better portion of society, that we shall be able to form a correct estimate of our own condition. " Look round the habitable 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 !" Were... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life." VANITY THE PASSION OF LITTLE MINDS. " How few Know their own good; or, knowing it, pursue ? How void of reason are our hopes and fears?" Juv.—DRYDEM'S Tram. Some of these instructers of mankind have not contented themselves with checking... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel passages.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new ; history is full of the errors of states and princes. . "Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!" Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...Glorious John Dryden, and compare his directness with the pompous pleonasms of the author of the Rambler. Look round the habitable world; how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. Hazlitt, I think, mentions that it was Wordsworth who first drew attention to these parallel passages.... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1915 - 634 pages
...been avoided. But such mistakes are not new ; history is full of the errors of states and princes. " Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! " Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble... | |
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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... 
