| SEVERAL HANDS - 1777 - 590 Seiten
...them. On this topic he fpeaks with a kind of enthuiiafm, and breaks out in the following rhapfody : ' Could the Author flatter himfelf, that any one would...him from the buttle and hurry of life, the din of politic], and the noife of folly ; vanity and vexation flew away for a feafon, care and difquietude... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 584 Seiten
...them. On this topic he fpeaks with a kind of enthufiafm, and breaks out in the following rhapfody : ' Could the Author flatter himfelf, that any one would...the lofs of his labour. The employment detached him tiom the buflle and hurry of life, the din of politic:, and the noife of folly ; vanity and vexation... | |
| 1793 - 550 Seiten
...one would have half the pleafure in reading the following expofitibn, which he hath hail in writ' ing it, he would not fear the lofs of his labour. The employment detached him from the bultle and hurry of life, the din of politics, and -the' ncife of folly ; vanity and vti'ation flew... | |
| 1793 - 450 Seiten
...cannot give. '1 huf , fpeaking of the fatisfaflion he had found in compofing this work, he fctys, ' Could the author flatter himfelf, that any one would have half the pleafcre in reading the fbllowing expofition, which he hath had in writing it, he would not fear the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 Seiten
...author flatter himfelf that any one would take half the pleafure in reading his work which he hath taken in writing it, he would not fear the lofs of his labour. The employment detached him from the buitle and hurry of life, the din of politics, and the noife of folly ; vanity ana vexation flew away... | |
| 1792 - 650 Seiten
...himfelf that any one would take half the pleafure in reading the following Expoluion, which he hath taken in writing it, he would not fear the lofs of his labour. The employment detached him from the buftle and hurry of life, the din of politicks, and the noife of (oily : vanity and vexation flew away... | |
| 1793 - 526 Seiten
...fiitisfactton he bad found in compoímg this work, he fay» : * Could the author ¡kttcr hhsil. '.[', that in v one would have half the pleafure. in reading the following...of his labour. The employment detached him from the buftle and hurry of life, the din of politics, and the noife of folly : vanity %nd vexation flew away... | |
| George Horne - 1794 - 460 Seiten
...cannot give. - Thus, fpeaking of the fatisfa£tion he had found in compofing this work, he fays, « Could the author flatter himfelf, that any one would have Half the pleafure in reading the f9ljo wing expofi~ jtion, which he hath had in writing jt, he would not fear the lo'fs of his. labour.... | |
| 1797 - 680 Seiten
...in writing it, he would not fear the lofs of his labour. The employment detached him from the buftle and hurry of life, the din of politics, and the noife of folly ; vanity and vexation flew away for ft fcafon, care anddifquietude came not near his dwelling. He rofe, freih as the morning, to his talk... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 Seiten
...flatter himfelf, that any one would take half the pleafure in reading his work, which he has taken in writing it, he would not fear the lofs of his labour. The employment detached him from the buftle and hurry of life, the din of polities, and the noife of folly. Vanity and vexation flew away... | |
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