 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pages
...religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise...and immortality to light? The precepts of Epicurus, who teaches us to endure what the laws of the universe make necessary, may silence, but not content... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 pages
...religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise...and immortality to light? The precepts of Epicurus, who teaches us to endure what the laws of the universe make necessary, may silence , but not content... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power? and to what hope may we not raise our...and immortality to light. The precepts of Epicurus, who teaches us to endure what the laws of the universe make necessary, may silence, but not content... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? And to what hope may we #5 not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that...there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succor in the Gospel, which has brought ' life and immortality to light.' The precepts of Epicurus,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1909 - 562 pages
...ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power? And to what hope may we 25 not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST? <— ^J Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succor in the Gospel, which has brought... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...Rambler, No. 32. And thus he concludes that pathetic essay which he wrote on the death of his mother : " Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not...and immortality to light. The precepts of Epicurus, who teaches us to endure what the laws of the universe make necessary, may silence, but not content... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Literary Collections - 1968 - 400 pages
...religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater power; and to what hope may we not raise our...Gospel, which has brought "life and immortality to light."5 The precepts of Epicurus, who teaches us to endure what the laws of the universe make necessary,... | |
 | John W. Crawford - American literature - 1978 - 216 pages
...Religion; when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power? and to what hope may we not raise our...when we consider that the greatest power is the best? . . The precepts of Epictetus. who teaches us to endure what the laws of the Universe make necessary,... | |
 | Richard H. Schmidt - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 364 pages
...religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater power; and to what hope may we not raise our...when we consider that the greatest power is the best. Idler essay *41 (1759) Prayer and madness Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary... | |
 | Doug Underwood - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 378 pages
...misery: "The dead cannot return, and nothing is left us here but languishment and grief. [Surely then] there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek...Gospel, which has brought 'life and immortality to light,'"18 While lohnson was scandalized by the irreverence of Voltaire, it was his "debate" with the... | |
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These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider... 
