 To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.  The British Essayists - Page 77edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | 1750 - 228 pages
...ornaments or dilguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs encumbrances, and to lofe all effcA when they become familiar. To be happy at home, is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defirc... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 pages
...afide the ornaments or dilguiies, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every entcrprife and labour tends, and of which every defire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787
...afide the ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all cffedt when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...afide the ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefe incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...afide the ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire... | |
 | 1801 - 326 pages
...afide the ornaments or difguifes, which he feels in privacy to be ufelefs incumbrances, and to lofe all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate refult of all ambition, the end to which every enterprife and labour tends, and of which every defire... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar....ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tertds, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels, in privacy, to be useful incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar....desire prompts the prosecution. It is indeed at home thai every man must be known, by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or feJicity;... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...and throws aside the ornaments or disguises, which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar....ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tendsi and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Every man must have found some whose lives',... | |
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