 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...part of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. Celestial powers! that piety regard, From you my labours wait their last reward. THE END. C. Whitunghun,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. AITWV lK fjuutafan avra^to; t'n afjt:iGri. Celestial pow'rs! that piety regard, Frotu You my labours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." The whole number of essays amounted to two hundred and eight. Addison's, in the Spectator, are more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and <T confidence to truth. \ eic /taieapuv dvraZios tir} Celestial pow'rs ! that piety regard, From you... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no man shall diminish or augment. I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be Cumbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." The whole number... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 600 pages
...with the following explicit declaration of what he hoped from his periodical labours. " I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." And yet a work of these lofty pretensions, — pretensions which the public judp ment confesses to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence, "I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." His friend Dr. Birch, being now engaged in preparing an edition of Raleigh's smaller pieces, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | John Cole - 1826 - 144 pages
...evinced near the close of his Bible Society Addresses. Mr. Hinderwell must certainly be " uumbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue and confidence to truth.'' That he had a high regard for Time, " one of the greatest blessings bestowed by the Almighty on his... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...himself. How much better would it have been, to have ended with the prose sentence, " I shall never ery little of the pleasure which I received at the...itreceived it as a token of friendship, as a proof of His friend, Dr. Birch, being now engaged in preparing an edition of Ralegh's smaller pieces, Dr. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...himself. How much better would it have been to have ended with the prose sentence, " I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in...given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth." His friend Dr. Birch being now engaged in preparing an edition of Ralegh's smaller pieces, Dr. Johnson... | |
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I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth. 
