 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...intrepidity, (propensities, indeed, widely different from presuming impudence) to which we often yisld, as to a resistless power ; nor can he reasonably expect...confidence of others, who too apparently distrusts himself. * Aristotle, if you remember, names Fortitude the first of the cardinal virtues, as that without which... | |
 | 1803 - 322 pages
...value. It may, indeed, be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity,...confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself. Plutarch, in his enumeration of the various occasions on which a man may, without just offence, proclaim... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...Life of Pope; It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity...confidence of others, who too apparently distrusts himself. Rambler, vol. i, p. 3." There would be few enterprizes of great labour or hazard undertaken, if we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 380 pages
...value. It may, indeed, be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity,...confidence of others, who too apparently distrusts himself. Plutarch, in his enumeration of the various occasions on which a man may without just offence proclaim... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...value. It may, indeed, be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yi-ld, as to a resistless power ; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others, who too apparently... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 372 pages
...value. It may, indeed, be no less dangerous to claim, on ^certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity,...of others., who too apparently distrusts himself. Plutarch, in his enumeration of the various occasions on which a man may without just offence proclaim... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 376 pages
...too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we oiten yield, as to a resistless power ; nor can he reasonably...of others., who too apparently distrusts himself. Plutarch, in his enumeration of the various occasions on which a man may without just offence proclaim... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 352 pages
...value. It may, indeed, be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity,...confidence of others, who too apparently distrusts himself. Plutarch, in his enumeration of the various occasions on which a man may without just offence proclaim... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...value. It may, indeed, be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity,...confidence of others, who too apparently distrusts himself. Plutarch, in his enumeration of the various occasions on which a man may without just offence proclaim... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...value. It may, indeed, be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity,...we often yield, as to a resistless power; nor can tie reasonably expect the confidence of others, who too apparently distrusts himself. Plutarch, in... | |
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It may, indeed, be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield, as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of... 
