 ... the forest, and the linnet of the grove : let them consider the life of animals, whose motions are regulated by instinct : they obey their guide, and are happy. Let us therefore, at length, cease to dispute, and learn to live ; throw away the...  Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale - Stran 58avtor: Samuel Johnson - 1831 - 124 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 strani
...dispute, and learn how to live: throw away the incumbrance of precepts, which they who utter them with so much pride and pomp, do not understand, and carry...his own beneficence. "Sir," said the prince, with oreat modesty, "as I, like the rest of mankind, am desirous of felicity, my closest attention has been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 strani
...dispute, and learn to live ; throw away the incumbrance of precepts, which they who utter theni with so much pride and pomp do not understand, and carry...with a placid air, and enjoyed the consciousness of hii own beneficence. " Sir," said the prince, with great modesty, " as I, like all the rest of mankind,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 strani
...dispute, and learn to live ; throw away the incumbrance of precepts, which they who utter them with so much pride and pomp do not understand, and carry...modesty, as I, like all the rest of mankind, am desirous at felicity, my closest attention has been fixed upon your discourse : I doubt not the truth of a position... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 strani
...throw away the incumbrance of precepts, which they who utter them with so much pride and. pomp do riot understand, and carry with us this simple and intelligible...deviation from, nature is deviation from happiness." Wheu he had spoken, he looked round him with a placid air, and enjoyed the consciousness of his own... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 strani
...encumbrance of precepts, which they who utter them with so much pride and pomp do not underMarcel, and carry with us this simple and intelligible maxim...Sir," said the prince with great modesty, " as I, lik^ all the rest of mankind, am desirous of felicity, my closest attention has been fixed upon your... | |
 | William Driverger - 1820 - 648 strani
...and learn to live. Let us throw off the incumbrance of those precepts, which they who utter them with so much pride and pomp do not understand, and carry...with us this simple and intelligible maxim, that, to deviate from nature, is to deviate from happiness. As the English are generally inclined to a certain... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 strani
...dispute, and learn to live ; throw away the encumbrance of precepts, which they who utter them with so much pride and pomp do not understand, and carry...deviation from nature is deviation from happiness.' " When ne had spoken, he looked round him with a placid air, and enjoyed the consciousness of his own beneficence.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 strani
...dispute, and learn to live ; throw away the encumbrance of precepts, which they who utter them with so much pride and pomp do not understand, and carry...deviation from nature is deviation !/ from happiness.' " // _When he had spoken, he looked round him with a placid air, and enjoyed the consciousness of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 strani
...dispute, and learn to live; throw away the incumbrance of precepts, which they, who utter them, with so much pride and pomp, do not understand, and carry...deviation from nature is deviation from happiness." ) When htf• had spoken, he looked round him with a placid air, and enjoyed the consciousness of his own... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 strani
...dispute, and learn to live : throw away the encumbrance of precept*, which they who utter them with so much pride and pomp do not understand, and carry...deviation from nature is deviation from happiness." \Vhen he had spoken, he looked round him with a placid aJr, and enjoyed the consciousness of his own... | |
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