 | English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...to sus» pect that I was rather impelled by resent» ment , than led by devotion , into so» litude. My fancy riots in scenes of folly , ,> and I lament that I have lost so much , have gained so lillle. In solitude , if THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. io3 » I escape the example of bad... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion...folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have cained so little. In solitude, if 1 escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion,...folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion...folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...secure myself from vice, but- by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspecl that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion,...folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...secure myself from vice but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion,...folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I •V9I.. HI. 29 was rather'impelled by resentment, than led by devotion, into solitude....folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment, than '.cd by devotion into solitude. My fancy riots in scenes of folly, and I lament that I have lost ^o much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise... | |
 | John Henry Clive - Shorthand - 1813 - 162 pages
...secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue ; and begin to suspect, that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion...folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...secure myself from vice, but liy retiring from the exercise of virtue, and M begin to suspect thai I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion, into solitude. My fancy riols in scenes of folJy, and I lament that I have lost so much, aud havegained so little. In solitude,... | |
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I am sometimes ashamed to think that I could not secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion, into solitude. 
