 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...  Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale - Page 39by Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...theprince, "maybe true of others, since it is true of me; yet, whatever be the General infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and...OF .LIFE." "The causes of Good and evil," answered Imlae, "are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with each other, so diversified by various... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...prince, may be true of others, since it is true of me ; yet, whatever be the general infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and...directs 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... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...have hitherto been the subject of this discourse..—— Spectator. 8. The causes of good and evil are so various and uncertain, so often 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 pages
...prince, " may be true of others, since it is true of me ; yet whatever be the general infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and..." are so various and uncertain, so often entangled wilh each other, so diversified by various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...prince, may be true of others, since it is true of me ; yet, whatever be the general infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and wisdom surely directs us to take the least evil m the choice of life." " The causes of good and evil, answered Imlac, are so various and uncertain,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...prince, " may be true of others, since h is true of me ; yet whatever be the general infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and wisdom surely directs us to take tne least evil in the choice of life." " The causes of good and evil," answered Imlac, " are BO various... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...prince, " may be true of others, since it is true of me ; yet, whatever be the general infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestable reasons of preference, must live and die\ inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...prince, " may be true of others, since it is true of me ; yet, whatever be the general infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and...foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestable reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating." " But surely,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 pages
...prince, " may be true of others, since it is true of me ; yet, whatever be the general infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and...so often entangled with each other, so diversified hy various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen, that he who would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 pages
...prince, may be true of others, since it is true of me ; yet, whatever be the general infelicity of man, one condition is more happy than another, and...so various and uncertain, so often entangled with rach other, so diversified by various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen,... | |
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