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" Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed;... "
the monthly review - Page 431
by SEVERAL HANDS - 1759
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 20

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1759 - 636 pages
...defire will be no longer our torment, and no man (hall be wretched but by his own fault." " This, faid a philofoper, who had heard him with tokens of great...heart is originally imprefled ; which is not written en it by precept, but engraven by dtfliny \ not InJliUed by education, but infufed at our nativity*....
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes

Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...our torment, and no I man man fhall be wretched but by his own fault." " This, faid a philofbpher, who had heard him with tokens of great impatience,...heart is originally imprefled ; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by deftiny, not inftilled by education, but infufed at our nativity....
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The prince of Abissinia [by S. Johnson].

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...already come, when none are wretched but by their own fault. Nothing is more idle, than to inquire after happinefs, which nature has kindly placed within...law with which every heart is originally imprefled j which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by deftiny, not inftilled by education, but infufed...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...longer our torment, and no man {hall be wretched but by his own fault." ct This, faid a philofopher, who had heard him •with tokens of great impatience,...heart is originally imprefled ; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by deftiny, not inftilled by education, but infufed at our nativity....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...longer our torment, and no man fhall be wretched but by his own fault." " This, faid a philofopher, who had heard him with tokens of great impatience,...unalterable law with which every heart is originally impreflTed ; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by deftiny, not inftillcd by education,...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...longer our torment, and no man {hall be wretched but by his own fault." " This, faid a philofopher, who had heard him with tokens of great impatience,...happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to thatuniverfal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impre/Ted ; which is not written...
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The Novelist's Magazine, Volume 23

English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...but by their ' own fault. Nothing is more idle, than ' to enquire after happinefs, which na• ture has kindly placed within our « reach. The way to...unalterable law ' with which every heart is originally ' impruTuI ; which is net written on it 1 by precept, but engraven by deftiny, • not inttilled by...
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...time is already come, when none are wretched but by their own fault. Nothing is more idle, than to to enquire after happinefs, which nature has kindly...heart is originally imprefled ; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by deftiny, not inftilled by education, but infufed at our nativity....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ...

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...longer our torment, and no man fhall be wretched but by his own fault." " This, faid a philofopher, who had heard him with tokens of great impatience,...heart is originally imprefled; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by deftiny, not inftilled by education, but infufed at our nativity....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...already come, when none are wretched but by their own fault. Nothing is more idle, than to inquire after happinefs, which nature has kindly placed within...heart is originally imprefled ; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by deftiny, not inftilled by education, but infufed at our nativity....
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