 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...than the Abissinian princes in their prisons of pleasure. Whatever is done by the monks is incited by an adequate and reasonable motive. Their labour supplies...inactivity. There is a certain task to be performed at an appropriate hour; and their toils are cheerful, because they consider them as acts of piety, by which... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...than the Abyssinian princes in their prison of pleasure. Whatever is done by the monks is incited by an adequate and reasonable motive. Their labour supplies...listless inactivity. There is a certain task to be oerformed at an appropriated hour ; and their toils are il, because they consider them as acts of piety,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...than the Abyssinian princes in theirprison of pleasures. Whatever is done by the monks is incited by an adequate and reasonable motive. Their labour supplies...task to be performed at an appropriated hour ; and then- toils are cheerful, because they consider them as acts of piety, by which they are always advancing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 64 pages
...distributed: one duty succeeds another, so that they are not left open to the distraction of nnguided choice, nor lost in the shades of listless inactivity. There is a certain task to be performed at an oppropriated hour; and their toils are cheerful, because they consider them as acts of piety, by which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1831 - 138 pages
...than the Abyssinian princes in their prison of pleasure. Whatever is done by the monks is incited by an adequate and reasonable motive. Their labour supplies...listless inactivity. There is a certain task to be oerformed at an appropriated hour ; and their toils are cheerful, because they consider them us acts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1833 - 162 pages
...rewarded. Their devotion prepares them for another, state, and reminds tbem of its approach, while it (Us them for it. Their time is regularly distributed:...shades of listless inactivity. There is a certain task I to be performed at an appropriated hour ; and their I toils are cheerful, because they consider them... | |
 | Math Décrand - English fiction - 1834 - 396 pages
...buted; one duty succeeds another, so that they are not left (3) open to the distraction 5 .4 " _ a of unguided choice , nor lost in the shades of listless inactivity. There is a cértain task 6 0 03 to be performed at an appropriated hour ; and their toils are chéerful, because... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 416 pages
...them with necessaries ; it therefore cannot be omitted , and is certainly rewarded. Their demotion prepares them for another state, and reminds them...nor lost in the shades of listless inactivity. There pation pour le lendemain. «Voilà la vie, dit Nékayah : on n'est heureux que par la perspective du... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 120 pages
...reasonable motive. Their labor supplies them with necessaries; it therefore cannot be omittwd, and ia certainly rewarded. Their devotion prepares them for...a certain task to be performed at an appropriated nonr; and their toils are cheerful, because they consider them aa acts of piety, by which they are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 118 pages
...distributed ; one duty succeeds another ; so that they are not left open to the distraction of unguidcd choice, nor lost in the shades of listless inactivity. There is a certain task to be performed at on appropriated nour; and their toils are cheerful, because they consider them as acts of piety, by... | |
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Their labour supplies them with necessaries ; it therefore cannot be omitted, and is certainly rewarded. Their devotion prepares them for another state, and reminds them of its approach, while it fits them for it. Their time Is regularly distributed ;... 
