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" The utmost excellence at which humility can arrive, is a constant and determinate pursuit of virtue, without regard to present dangers or advantage ; a continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice... "
Select Essays of Dr. Johnson: The Rambler (Continued). The Adventurer. The Idler - Page 54
by Samuel Johnson - 1889
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 8

1752 - 196 pages
...continual reference of every aciion to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlafting juftice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perfeverance only can obtain. But that pride which many who yet prefume to bo;i.it of enlarged and...
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The Weekly Miscellany; Or, Instructive Entertainer: Containing a ..., Volume 7

1776 - 632 pages
...which humanity can arrive, is a conftant and determinate purfuit of virtue, without regard to prefent dangers or advantage ; a continual reference of every action to the Divine Will ; an habitual appealing to everlafting juftice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual to the reward which...
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A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences ...

Giuseppe Baretti - English language - 1778 - 470 pages
...humanity can arrive, is a conftant and determinate purfuit of virtue, without regard to prefent danger or advantage ; a continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlafting juftice ; and an unwearied elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perfeverance...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 1

1785 - 596 pages
...a continual reference of every aftion to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlalHng iuftice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perfeverancc only can obtain. Hut that pride which many, who prefume to boaft of generous fentiments,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 422 pages
...which humanity can arrive, is a conftant and determinate purfuit of virtue, without regard to prefent dangers or advantage ; a continual reference of every action to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlaftingjuftice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perfeverance...
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The Rambler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...which humanity can arrive, is a conftant and determinate purfuit of virtue, without regard to prefent dangers or advantage ; a continual reference of every...action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlafting juftice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perfeverance...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...which humanity can arrive, is a conftant and determinate purfuit of virtue, without regard to prefent dangers or advantage ; a continual reference of every action to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlafting juftice ; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perfeverance...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 6

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...condemns, can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. Thus the utmost excellence at which humanity can arrive, is a constant and determinate pursuit of virtue, without regard to present danger or advantage ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice, and an unwearied elevation of the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 354 pages
...slavery, and to resign the right of directing our own lives. The utmost excellence at which humanity can arrive, is a constant and determinate pursuit...generous sentiments, allow to regulate their measures, hasfnothing nobler in view than the approbation of men ; of beings whose superiority we are under no...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 6

1806 - 420 pages
...humanity can arĀ» rive, is a conftant and determinate purfuit of virtue, without regard to prefent dangers or advantage ; a continual reference of every...action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlafting juftice ; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perfeverance...
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