| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 Seiten
...of the great success which those called Methodists' have. JOHNSON. ' Sir, it is owing to their ' ' Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure,...desire which every mind feels of increasing its ideas . . . without knowing why we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.' Rasselas, ch.... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 Seiten
...of the great success which those called Methodists' have. JOHNSON. ' Sir, it is owing to their 1 ' Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure,...desire which every mind feels of increasing its ideas . . . without knowing why we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget.' Rasselas, ch.... | |
| 1803 - 228 Seiten
...the most heroic virtue. KNOWLEDGE. KNOWLEDGE IS A TREASURE, OF WHICH STUDY IS THE KEY. L.NOWLEDGE is one of the means of pleasure, as is 'confessed by...natural desire which every mind feels of increasing its ideai. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced ; it is a vanity in which the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 Seiten
...scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the comparative happiness of others. Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure,...ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced; it is a vacuity [u which the soul sits motionless and torpid for of attraction; and,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 Seiten
...scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the comparative happiness of others. Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure,...ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced : it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 Seiten
...scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the comparative happiness of others. Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure,...ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced ; it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction;... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 Seiten
...scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the comparative happiness of others. Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure,...ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 Seiten
...scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the comparative happiness of others. Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure,...ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced : it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction... | |
| 1810 - 234 Seiten
...the most heroic virtue. KNOWLEDGE. KNOWLEDGE IS A TREASURE, OF WHICH STUDY IS THE KEY. KNOWLEDGE is one of the means of pleasure, as is confessed by the...ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced ; it is a vanity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...scarce any man has leisure from his own distresses to estimate the comparative happiness of others. Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure,...ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced : it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction... | |
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