 None will flatter the poor, and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler - Page 382by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...little power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it ; I will from this... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...little power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him ; and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it ; I will from this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...little power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it; I will from this... | |
 | Charles Peirce - Textbooks - 1811 - 266 pages
...power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of '\ts sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him ; and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long soughtcontent, and have not ••'found it ; I will... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own limit* and follies always before him ; and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it ; I will from this... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults irtd follies always before him ; and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it ; I will from this... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...little power of flattering themfelves. That man is furely the moft wretched ot the fons of wrerchednefs, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him ; and who has none to refc> oncile him to himfelf by praife and veneration. I have long fought content, and have not found... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...before him; and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. 1 have long sought content, and have not found it ; I will from this moment endeavour to be richA' Full of this new resolution, he shut himself up in his chamber for six months, to deliberate... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...little power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him ; and who h'as none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it ; I will from this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...little power of flattering themselves. That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration. I have long sought content, and have not found it ; I will from this... | |
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