With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life from consciousness... The prince of Abissinia [by S. Johnson]. - Page 15by Samuel Johnson - 1783Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...equity of providence has ballanced peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervations like thefe the prince amufed himfelf as he returned,...difcovered him to feel fome complacence in his own perlpicacity, and to receive fome fblace of the miferies of life, from confcioufnefe of the delicacy... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...equity of providence has balanced peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervations like thefe the prince amufed himfelf as he returned,...life, from confcioufnefs of the delicacy with which he felc, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them. He mingled cheerfully in the diverfions of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...equity of providence has balanced peculiar fufFerings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervations like thefe the prince amufed himfelf as he returned,...receive fome folace of the miferies of life, from confcioufncfs of. the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them. He... | |
| English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...has balanced peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments.' With obfervations like thefe the priii re amufed himfelf as he returned, uttering them with...own perfpicacity, and to receive fome folace of the mifei Ħes of life, from conl'cittufnefs of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervatiorrs like thefe the prince amufed himfeif as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that dilcovered hjm to feel fome complacence in his own perlpicacity, and to receive fome fokce of the miferies... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...equity of Providence has balanced peculiar fufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With obfervations like thefe the prince amufed himfelf as he returned, uttering them with a plain- • tiye voice, yet with a look that difcovered him to feel fome complacence in his own perfpicacity,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...balanrcedpeculiarsufferingswithpeculiarenjoyments." With observations like these the Prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments." With observations like these the prince amused; himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive Voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel dome complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the... | |
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