 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...are sufficient to give hope, but not security ; to animate the contest, but not to promise victory. Those who are in the power of evil habits, must conquer...N°. 28. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1758. TO THE IDLER. SIR, IT it very easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...are sufficient to give hope, but not security ; to animate the contest, but not to promise victory. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer...tyrant, whom they will very vainly, resolve to conquer. No. XXVIII. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 175&. TO THE IDLER. " Si IV " IT is very easy for a man who sits... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 410 pages
...They are sufficient to give hope, but not security to animate the contest, but not to promise victory. Those who are in the power of evil habits, must conquer...whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer. N° £8. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1758. TO THE IDLER. SIB, IT is very easy for a man who sits idle at home,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...are sufficient to give hope, but not security ; to animate jthe contest, but not to promise victory. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer...tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer. NUMB. 28. SATURDAY, October 28, 1758. To the IDLER. SIR, TT is very easy for a man who sits idle at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...are sufficient to give hope, but not security ; to animate the contest, but not to promise victory. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer...tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer. No. 28. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1758. TO THE IDLER. SIR, JT is very easy for a man who sits idle at home,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...are sufficient to give hope, but not security ; t« animate the contest, but not to promise victory. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer...those who are not yet subject to their influence may, oy timely caution, preserve their freedom ; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...are sufficient to give hope, but not security ; to animate the contest, but not to promise victory. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer...tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer. NUMB. 28. SATURDAY, October 28, 1758. To the IDLER. SIR, IT is very easy for a man who sits idle at... | |
 | 1817 - 398 pages
...to the number of those whose probation is past, and whose happiness or misery shall endure for ever. THOSE who are in the power of evil habits, must conquer...tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer. IDLER. HE that writes the life of another, is either his friend or his enemy, and wishes either to... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...the most resolute resolver, though furnished for the assault with all the weapons of philosophy. — Those who are in the power of evil habits, must conquer...tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer. Idler. 86.— On Cruelty to Inferior Animals. MAN is that link of the chain of universal existence,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...are sufficient to give hope, but not security ; to animate the contest, but not to promise victory. Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer...tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer. No. 28. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1758. To the IDLER. SIR, IT is very easy for a man who sits idle at home,... | |
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Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;... 
