 | William Cramp - 1838 - 288 pages
...than you, ie not you better. Ex. — It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life to be rather driven by the fear of evil than attracted by the prospect of good, ie and not attracted by the prospect of good. Ex\—" More men fall, generally, in a battle than (not)... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...[From the Preface to the Dictionary.] It is the fate of thoee who toil at the lower employments of life rtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And s exponed to censure without hope of praise ; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...[From the Preface to the Didiwary.} It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good ; to })e exposed to censure without hope of praise ; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life to be rather driven by the fear of evil, (236) than attracted by the prospect of good ; to be exposed...been without applause, and diligence without" reward. Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered, not as the... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...greatest generals of antiquity. It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good.— Johnson. The garrison of Dunkirk, acting in concert with the external army, made a vigorous sally on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...Jouiiso.it. PREFACE ENGLISH DICTIONARY. IT is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect ol good ; to be exposed to censure, without hope o! praise; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished... | |
 | Royal society of arts of Jamaica - 392 pages
...excitement of ambition:— they occupied a station in which it was " their fate to be driven rather by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect...where success would have been without applause, and deligence without reward."* When this state of thraldom was removed by the fiat of universal freedom,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 236 pages
...toll at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted Ъу the prospect of good,— to be exposed to censure,...been without applause, and diligence without reward. Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of Dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered, not as the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 236 pages
...with the present one. PEE FACE. " IT is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good, — to lie exposed to censure, without hope of praise, — to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 344 pages
...APTABE VEBBA KEBU 8.— QüIHT. 11 IT Is the fate of those who toil at the lower employment* of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good,— to be exposed to cenenre, without hope of praise,— to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect, where... | |
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IT is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise ; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect,... 
