 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 638 pages
...fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves...and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon pur lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 458 pages
...fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves...with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, N° 66. THE RAM It Mitt. 40/ but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. zdX p& sύ K W 2 y A Y # ; m *T ... O k 㑏 ) P"~ v ރr qt Y' e q0Z- NN tlien look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 474 pages
...object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and>rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness...obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horrour, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had ndt forsaken... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 526 pages
...fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves...obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horrour, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entaiigle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury,...obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horrour, with sorrow, with repentance ; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate" object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge' ourselves...age begins to invade' us, and disease and anxiety obstruct/our >vay. We then look back upon our lives wiih horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves...inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to iuvade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horrour,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves...rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy ; till the dar'iness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxioty obstruct our way. We then look back... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves...wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue. 18 Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example, not to despair ; but shall remember, that,... | |
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By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of... 
