 ... wherever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of vice and virtue, a contest of passion and reason ; and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distributions, but has balanced, in most countries, their particular inconveniences...  Works - Page 10by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1913 - 590 pages
...Sciences : He will discover, what will always be discover'd by a diligent and impartial Enquirer,: that wherever Human Nature is to be found, there is...their particular Inconveniences by particular Favours. He who writes much, Johnson said, will not easily escape a manner. But here is Johnson's manner in... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial inquirer, that whereever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of...their particular inconveniences by particular favours. " 284 JOHNSON AND THE PHILOSOPHERS CHAP. From this time, for twenty years, Johnson was more or less... | |
 | 588 pages
...all Sciences : He will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial Enquirer, that wherever Human Nature is to be found, there is...their particular Inconveniences by particular Favours. He who writes much, Johnson said, will not easily escape a manner. But here is Johnson's manner in... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1923 - 440 pages
...will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial inquirer, that whereever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of...but has balanced in most countries their particular inconreniences by particular favours. ' From this time, for twenty years, Johnson was more or less... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 440 pages
...will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial inquirer, that whereever human nature is to be found, there is a mixture of...their particular inconveniences by particular favours. * From this time, for twenty years, Johnson was more or less dependent for support on the labours of... | |
 | English literature - 1925 - 638 pages
...; no Chinese perfectly polite, and completely skilled in all sciences : he will discover what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial inquirer,...their particular inconveniences by particular favours. That passage is one which might well be set as a model of good writing, and there are few, even practised,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - Literature - 1927 - 404 pages
...all Sciences. He will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial Enquirer, that wherever Human Nature is to be found, there is...particular Inconveniences by particular Favours." In this passage, as in others in the " Lobo " paraphrase, we have the complete idiosyncrasy of Johnson's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...all sciences ; he will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial enquirer, that wherever human nature is to be found, there is...particular inconveniences by particular favours." • Here we have an early example of that brilliant and energetick expression, which, upon innumerable... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1917 - 488 pages
...all Sciences: He will discover, what will always be discover'd by a diligent and impartial Enquirer, that wherever Human Nature is to be found, there is...their particular Inconveniences by particular Favours. He who writes much, Johnson said, will not easily escape a manner. But here is Johnson's manner in... | |
 | George S. Jackson, Jacks - Music - 1993 - 340 pages
...; no Chinese perfectly polite, and completely skilled in all sciences ; he will discover, what will always be discovered by a diligent and impartial inquirer,...and that the Creator doth not appear partial in his distribution, but has balanced in most countries, their particular inconveniences by particular favours.'... | |
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