 They are surely happy," said the prince, "who have all these conveniences, of which I envy none so much as the facility with which separated friends interchange their thoughts." "The Europeans," answered Imlac, "are less unhappy than we, but they are...  the monthly review - Page 428by SEVERAL HANDS - 1759Full view - About this book
 | Jean Pons victor Lecoutz de Levizac (d.1) - 1834 - 494 pages
...EXERCISE ON THE COLLECTIVE PARTITIVE. 1. J^fnny persons experience that human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed. 2. Many poets think that poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to... | |
 | Karl Ferdinand Becker - German language - 1845 - 390 pages
...?eben tft ein Buftanb, in n>el= d)em incl 5u ertragen nnb »ventg ?u geme|en tft, human life is a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. 219 We must be careful to distinguish the possibility and necessity of the action from the possibility... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 pages
...échange de pensées si facile entre des amis absens. — Les Européens , répondit Imlac , sont moins unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.» CHAPTER XII. THE STORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 pages
...with which separated friends interchange their thoughts." "The Europeans," answered Imlac, "are less unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed." CHAPTER XII. The story of Imlac continued.... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - French language - 1846 - 584 pages
...etc. are understood. EXERCISE. 1. Many persons experience that human life is, every where, a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. Z. Many poets think that poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 pages
...with which separated friends interchange their thoughts." "The Europeans," answered Imlac, are less unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed." CHAPTER XII. Tin: 8TOB7 Or IMLAC CONTINUED.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...with which separated friends interchange their thoughts.' ' The Europeans,' answered Imlac, ' are less unhappy than we; but they are not happy. Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.' CHAPTER XIL THE STORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED.... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...us linger a little over them. Imlac, in Rasselas, tells us that " human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed ;" while the good vicar, after having been reduced from affluence to comparative poverty, observes:... | |
 | William Beckford - Fiction - 1883 - 446 pages
...answered Imlac, "are less unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed." CHAPTER XII. THE STORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED. " I AM not yet willing," said the prince, " to suppose that... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 454 pages
...answered Imlac, "are less unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed." CHAPTER XII. THE STORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED. " I AM not yet willing," said the prince, "to suppose that... | |
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