 ... remain uninjured, nature will find the means of reparation. Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave behind us is always lessening, and that which we approach increasing...  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Página 94por Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 páginas
...lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude. Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion : commit yourself again...lady is still continued, and shall be carried on with greater diligence, on condition that you will promise to wait a year for the event, without any unalterable... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 páginas
...lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude. Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion : commit yourself again...lady is still continued, and shall be carried on with greater diligence, on condition that you will promise to wait a year for the event, without any unalterable... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 páginas
...lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude. Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion : commit yourself again...lady is still continued, and shall be carried on with greater diligence, on condition that you will promise to wait a year for the event, without any unalterable... | |
 | 1900 - 674 páginas
...lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude. Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again...learn to diffuse yourself in general conversation." In one respect Rasselas is curiously contrasted with Candide. Voltaire's story is aimed at the doctrine... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 páginas
...lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude. Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion ; commit yourself again...learn to diffuse yourself in general conversation." In one respect Rasselas is curiously contrasted with Candide. Voltaire's story is aimed at the doctrine... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 páginas
...to be vain, do not stand to parley, but fly to business.' ' Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.' ' It seems to me that while you are making the choice of life, you neglect to live.' XIV With all his... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 páginas
...self-torture, and, to use Professor William James' phrase, of " Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion. Commit yourself again to the current of the world." (" Rasselas," chap. xxxv.) • Cp. letter iii BosweU, pp. 497-498. * " Rambler," No. 33. "chronic anxiety."... | |
 | Phyllis M. Bishop - 1925 - 200 páginas
...lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude. Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion. Commit yourself again...despair before all remedies have been tried ; the enquiry after the unfortunate lady is still continued and shall be carried on with yet greater diligence.,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1925 - 216 páginas
...lessening, and that which we approach increasing in magnitude. Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion ; commit yourself again...; Pekuah will vanish by degrees ; you will meet in •yova way some other favourite, or learn to diffuse yourself in general conversation." In one respect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 286 páginas
...increasing in magnitude. <Do not suffer life to stagnate ; it will grow muddy for want of motion recommit yourself again to the current of the world ; Pekuah...despair before all remedies have been tried : the enquiry after the unfortunate lady is still continued, and shall be carried on with yet greater diligence,... | |
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