 The nations between the tropics are known to be fiery, inconstant, inventive, and fanciful; because, living at the utmost length of the earth's diameter, they are carried about with more swiftness than those whom nature has placed nearer to the poles...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler - Page 289by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...plainer, than that he who towers to the Sfth ftory is whirled through more fpace by every circumrotation, than another that grovels upon the groundfloor. The...to be fiery, inconftant, inventive, and fanciful; bccaufe, living at tile utmoft length of the earth's diameter, t!>py are carried about with more fwiftne'.s... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...plainer, than that he who towers to the tilth ftory is whirled through more (pace by every circumrotation, than another that. grovels upon the groundfloor. The nations between the tropicks arc fcnown to he fiery, inconftant, inventive, and fanciful ; hecaufe, living at the utmoft length... | |
 | 1801 - 344 pages
...plainer, than that he who towers to the fifth ftory is whirled through more fpace by every circumrotation, than another that grovels upon the groundfloor. The...his country, whenever .celerity and acutenefs are Tequifite, we muft actuate our languor by taking a few turns round the centre in .a .garret. If you... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 458 pages
...than that he who towers to the fifth ftory, is whirled through more fpace by every circumrotation, than another that grovels upon the groundfloor. The...placed nearer to the poles ; and therefore, as it beco es a wife man to ftruggle with the inconveniencies of his country, whenever celerity and acutenefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...than that he who towers to the fifth ftory, is whirled through more fpace by every circumrotation, than another that grovels upon the groundfloor. The...has placed nearer to the poles; and therefore, as it beco es a wife man to ftruggle with the inconveniencies of his country, whenever celerity and acutenefs... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 296 pages
...in the utmost length of the earth's diameter, they are carried about with more swiftness than those whom nature has placed nearer to the poles ; and therefore, as it becomes a wise man to struggle •with the inconveniences of his country, whenever celerity and acuteness are... | |
 | 1806 - 468 pages
...than that he who towers to the fifth ftory, is whirled through more fpace by every circumrotation, than another that grovels upon the groundfloor. The...and therefore, as it becomes a wife man to ftruggle ftruggle with the inconveniencies of his country, whenever celerity and acutenefs are requifuc, we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 424 pages
...at the utmost length of the earth's diameter, they are carried about with more swiftncss than those whom nature has placed nearer to the poles ; and therefore, as it becomes a wise man to struggle with the inconveniencies of his country, whenever celerity and acuteness are requisite,... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...than that he who towers to the fifth story, is whirled through more space by every circumrotation, than another that grovels upon the ground-floor. The nations between the tropicks arc known to be fiery, inconstant, inventive, and fanciful; because, living at the utmost length of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 310 pages
...at the utmost length of the earth's diameter, they are carried about with more swiftness than those whom nature has placed nearer to the poles; and therefore, as it becomes a wise man to struggle with the inconveniencies of his country, whenever celerity and acuteness are requisite,... | |
| |
