 Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed;...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 429edited by - 1759Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1927 - 264 pages
...when none are wretched but by their own fault. Nothing is more idle, than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The...to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed ; which is not written... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1927 - 286 pages
...when none are wretched but by their own fault. Nothing is more idle, than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The way to be happy is to live according to jiature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1927 - 268 pages
...are wretched but by ,~~~ their own fault, f Nothing is more idle, than to inquire after Happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The way to be happy is to ljye3C£O£dmg^o_nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - English language - 1928 - 262 pages
...when none are wretched but by their own fault. Nothing is more idle, than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The...to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed ; which is not written... | |
 | Oliver Elton - English literature - 1928 - 444 pages
...when none are wretched, hut by their own fault. Nothing is more idle, than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The way to be happy is to live according to nature. ..." Johnson grinds this illusion to dust, and states his own firmly held theory that the miseries... | |
 | 1907 - 506 pages
...when none are wretched but by their own fault. Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The...to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written... | |
 | 1759 - 436 pages
...torment, and no man (hall be wretched Ьц1 Ky his own fault.' ' This, laid a philofopher, who Had heaf<l him with tokens of great impatience, is the prefent...to live according to nature, in obedience to that univerial arid unalterable law with which every henrf is originally impreiTed ; which is not written... | |
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