 ... that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.  A History of Education - Page 183de Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - 343 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, which I take to be my portion in...written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.' — Milton on Church Government, B. u. ' can die, but so cannot their JOTS. And if the blessed... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, 1 might perhaps leave something so written to after times,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes as they should not willingly let it die."' Although, from the example of the Italian poets and from the difficulty of asserting a place... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 528 pages
...friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting, which now grew daily upon me, that by, labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftevtimes,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, "joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, " as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, joined with a strong propensity of nature," he might " leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die." It appears in all his writings that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die. These thoughts at once possessed me, and these other ; that if I were certain to write as men... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...he, " I take to be my portion in this life, "joined with a strong propensity of nature," he qiight " leave something so written to after-times, " as they should not willingly let it die." It appears, in all his writings, that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 pages
...intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times as they should not willingly let it die. The accomplishment of these intentions, which have lived within me ever since I could conceive... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times... | |
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