 The causes of good and evil, answered Imlac, are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with each other, so diversified by various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestable...  The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Seite 141833Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 Seiten
...searching for remote things will neglect those that are obvious. Preface to Dictionary, fol. p. 8. CHOICE. The causes of good and evil are so various and uncertain,...foreseen, that "he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die enquiring and deliberating. Prince of Abyflinia,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 Seiten
...directs us to take the least evil in the CHOICE OF .LIFE." "The causes of Good and evil," answered Imlae, "are so various and uncertain, so often entangled...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 Seiten
...US to take the least evil in the choice of life" " The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon inContestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 Seiten
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life." " The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 Seiten
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life.'1'' " The causes of good and evil, answered Imlac, are so various and uncertain, so often, entangled...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely, said... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 Seiten
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life." " The causes of good and evil," answered. Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with...foreseen, that he who. would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 Seiten
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life" " The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so' various and uncertain, so often entangled...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely" said... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 Seiten
...us to take the least evil in the choice of life." " The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestible reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely" said... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...pleasures of the imagination, which have hitherto been the subject of this discourse..—— Spectator. 8. The causes of good and evil are so various and uncertain,...entangled with each other, so diversified by various selations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen ; that he, who would fix his condition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 Seiten
...The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled wilh each other, so diversified by various relations, and...much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen, lhat he who would fix his condition upon, incontestable reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring... | |
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