| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 pages
...multiplied combinations. We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, ail animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure. K is frequently objected to relations of particular lives, that they are not distinguished by any striking... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 538 pages
...sometimes retarded, or perplexed by multiplied combinations. We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by...are not distinguished by any striking or wonderful Mcissitudes. The scholar who passed his life among his books, the merchant who conducted only his own... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...multiplied combinations. We are all prompted >y the same motives, all deceived by the samo allacies, adjacent villages ; desired to read a ludicrous advertisement...about the most effectual method of making inquiry afte particu_ar lives, that they are not distinguished by any striking or wonderful vicissitudes. The scholar,... | |
| President of a college - Composition (Language arts) - 1836 - 156 pages
...and necessarily implies. Q,. Can you give an example? A. " We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by...danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure." d. Are not climax and enumeration often conjoined together ? i A. There is, in almost every series,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...sometimes retarded, or perplexed by multiplied combinations. We arc all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by...danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure. It infrequently objected to relations of parties* la£Hv.es( that they are "hot disiingmsliecl by. any... | |
| Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition. * * » We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by...danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure. Johnson. ADAM AWAKENING EVE. Now morn her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...sometimes retarded, or perplexed by multiplied combinations. We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by...conducted only his own affairs; the priest, whose sphere ef action was not extended beyond that of his duty, are considered as no proper objects of public regard,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...sometimes retarded, or perplexed by multiplied combinations. We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danr, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure. It is frequently objected to relations ot particular... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...>y the same motives, all deceived by the same allacies, all animated by hope, obstnicied by dancer, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure. It is frequently objected to relations of particuar lives, that they are not distiryruislisiLby any îtriking or wonderful vicissituJesT TluLschclar,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...sometimes retarded, or perplexed by multiplied combinations. We are nil prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by...objected to relations of particular lives, that they arc not distinguished by any striking or wonderful vicissitudes. The scholar, who passed lus life among... | |
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