| 1796 - عدد الصفحات: 34
...a certain end, and -when he has attained it, an end more distant invites him to a new pursuit ; for to strive with difficulties and to conquer them, is the highest human, felicity j tht next is to strive, and deserve to conquer. LIFE ENDEARED BY AGE. BY UK. GOLDSMITH. Age, that... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...the ipecies would have obtained by the same right, had he happened to be the son of the same father. To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them,...next, is to strive^ and deserve to conquer : but he wBose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...the species would have obtained by the same right, had he happened to be the son of the same father. To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them,...the highest human felicity ; the next, is to strive, an/t i«er'!. rn oraqner : hue ae .»5nte5fe &as caoed •vxatw. i cnoteat, ami whn :an ^raast nwrx,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...stiive with difficulties, and to conquer,them,_is the highest human felicity; the next is to jtrive, and deserve to conquer ; but he whose life has passed...merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler oi existence ; and if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...species• would have obtained• by the same right, had he happened to be the son of the same father ? To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them,...to strive,• and deserve to conquer : but he whose Hfe has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success• nor merit, can survey himself... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...last comforted in his disappointment, K2 by the consciousness that he has not failed by his own fault. To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them,...character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility. That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem ; and... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...the species would have obtained by the same right, had he happened to be the son of the same father. To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them,...neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useltss filler of existence ; and if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...the species would have obtained by the same right, had he happened to be the son of the same father. To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them,...•and deserve to conquer : but he whose life has pass«(1 without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...the species would have obtained by the same right, had he happened to be the son of the same lather? To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them,...success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless tiller of existence ; and if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to ) insensibility.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 630
...the son of the same father ? \ To strive with difficulties, and to conquer i them, is the liighest human felicity; the next is to strive, and deserve...himself only as a useless filler of existence ; and il he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility. Thus it appears... | |
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