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" God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and evacuate such... "
The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby]. - Page 483
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [chiefly of Johnson, ed. by T ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 400 pages
...ourselves, whereta " all present felicities afford no resting content" ment,will be able at last ta tell us- we are more " than our present selves; and...evacuate such " hopes in the fruition of their own accomplish" ments." To his treatise on Urn-burial was added The garden of Cyrus, or the quincunxial...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 402 pages
...cognition of better things, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment. But the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...contentment, will be able at last to tell us we are VOL. XII. L more than our present selves; and evacuate such hope.in the fruition of their own accomplishments."...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, " whereto all present felicities ailbrd no resting con" tentment, will be able at last to tell us we are "more " than...on Urn-burial was added The Garden of Cyrus, or the quincunxiul lozenge, or network plantation of the indents, artificially, naturally, mystically, considered....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 564 pages
...cognition of better things, the wisdom of God " hath necessitated their contentment. But the su" perior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, " whereto all present felicities afford no resting con" tentment, will be able at last to tell us we are more " than our present selves : and evacuate...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 872 pages
...cognition of better things, the wisdom of God " hath necessitated their contentment. But the su" perior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, " whereto all present felicities afford no resting con" tentment, will be able at last to tell us we are more " than our present selves : and evacuate...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 472 pages
...cognition of better things, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment. But the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments." M To his treatise on Urn-burial was added The 'Garden of Cyrus, or the quincunxial lozenge, or network...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 476 pages
...cognition of better things, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment. But the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting conr tentment, will be able at last to tell us we are more than our present selves ; and evacuate such...
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The London Christian instructor, or, Congregational magazine, Volume 6

1823 - 736 pages
...necessitated their contentment : but the snperiour ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereunto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us we are more then our present selves; slender time to come) they had no small »nd evacuate such hopes in the fruidisadvantage...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the English poets (cont ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...give the fatal stroke, spent part of the night in reading the immortality of Plato, thereby con6rming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt....present felicities afford no resting contentment, will he able at last to tell us we are more than our present selves : and evacuate such hopes in the fruition...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 532 pages
...necessitated their contentment. But the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, wereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment,...able at last to tell us we are more than our present selves;and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments." thirst give the fatal...
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