Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is always laudable, even when the enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it; to rest below his own aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active,... The Naval Chronicle - Sivu iiimuokkaaja - 1799Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| Samuel Johnson - 1768 - 1002 sivua
...eienipHfied, many fenies have efcaped obfervation. Yet thefe failures, however fiequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is always laudable, even when the enterprize is above the ftrength that undertakes it : To reft below his own aim is incident to every... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 sivua
...Execution ; and that whatever Abilities I had brought to my Talk, with thofe I muft finally perform it. To deliberate whenever I doubted, to enquire whenever...the Undertaking without End, and, perhaps, without much Improvement ; for I did not fmd by my firft Experiments, that what I had not of my own was eafily... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 sivua
...exemplified, many fenfes have efcaped obfervation. Yet thefe failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is always laudable, even when the enterprize is above the ftrength that undertakes it:. To reft below his own aim is incident to every... | |
| William Mudford - 1802 - 166 sivua
...clouds of prejudice, and his arguments degenerate into sophistical declamation. Yet, in his own words, " to have attempted much is always laudable even when...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it ; to rest below his aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active, and whose views are comprehensive."... | |
| 1804 - 518 sivua
...somewhat similar, when he regrets the imperfections of his dictionary of the English language — " To have attempted much, is always laudable even when...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it : to rest below his own aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active and whose views are comprehensive;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 sivua
...exemplified, many senses have escaped observation. Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it : To rest below his own aim is incident to every one •whose fancy is active, and whose views are comprehensive... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sivua
...exemplified, many sense* have escaped observation. Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is always laudable, even when the enterprize is above the strength that undertakes it : To rest below his own aim is incident to every... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 sivua
...exemplified, many senses have escaped observation. Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it ; to rest below -his own aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active, and whose views are comprehensive... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 sivua
...Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted inuch.is always laudable, even when the enterprise " is above the strength that undertakes it : To rest J)elow his own aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active,, and whose views are comprehensive... | |
| South Carolina, Joseph Brevard - 1814 - 620 sivua
...the civil jurisprudence of the state from it:; origin, to say, in the language of Dr. Johnson, that "to have attempted much is always laudable, even when...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it:" and he presumes, however extravagant it may appear, to prefer a wish, that our laws may hereafter be... | |
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