 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...acquaintance; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure, is at another a lover of money. Those indeed who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often, gained upon easier terms. But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour/ Irene, p. 1 6. EXCELLENCE. Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not *ften gained upon easier terms. Life of Pope. There is a vigilance of observati&n, and accuracy of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...acquaintance; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure, is at another a lover of money. Those indeed who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1809 - 516 pages
...RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH. ESSAYS ON PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION. CHAPTER I. ON THE CHOICE OF, A PROFESSION. " THOSE, who attain any excellence, commonly spend life...excellence is not often obtained upon " easier terms. But to the particular species of excellence " men are directed, not by an ascendant planet, or predomi"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...acquaintance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure, is at another a lover of money. Those indeed who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...acquaintance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure, is at another a lover of money. Those indeed who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...intervention of some accidental or subordinate propension. at another a lover of money. Those indeed who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...acquaintance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure, is at another a lover of money. Those indeed who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...acquaintance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure, is at another a lover of money. Those indeed who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1812 - 572 pages
...osr PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION. INTRODUCTION. f On Genius and on the Choice of a Profession. *' 1 HOSE, who attain any excellence, commonly " spend life in...excellence is not " often obtained upon easier terms. But to the " particular species of excellence men are directed, " not by an ascendant planet, or predominant... | |
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Human characters are by no means constant; men change by change of place, of fortune, of acquaintance ; he who is at one time a lover of pleasure, is at another a lover of money. Those indeed who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit;... 
