 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with fongs, the fubject of which was the happy valley. Their appetites were...to the clofe of even. Thefe methods were generally fuccefTful ; few of the Princes had ever wifhed to enlarge their bounds, but paflfed their lives in... | |
 | History - 1762 - 578 pages
...was the Happy Valley. Their appeti;es were excited by frequent enumerations of different enioyments, and revelry and merriment was the bufinefs of every hour, from the dawn of morning to the clofe of evening. Thefe methods were generally fuccefsful ; few of the princes had ever wilhed to enlarge their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with fongs, the fubject of which was the happy "valley. Their appetites were...clofe of even. Thefe methods were generally fuccefsful j few of the princes had ever wi(hed to enlarge their bounds, but pa/Ted their lives in full conviction... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with fongs, the fubject of which was the happy valley. Their appetites were...different enjoyments, and revelry and merriment was the bufmefs of every hour from the dawn of morning to the clofc of even. Thefe methods were generally fuccefsful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with fongs, the fubject of which was the happy valley. Their appetites were...different enjoyments, and revelry and merriment was the bufmefs of every hour from the dawn of morning to the clofe of even. Thefe methods were generally fuccefsful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with fongs, the fubject of which was the happy -valley. Their appetites were...bufinefs of every hour from the dawn of morning to the dole of even. Thefe methods were generally fuccefsful; few of the princes had ever wifhed to enlarge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained .with fongs, the fubject of which was the happy valley. Their appetites were...princes had ever wifhed to enlarge their bounds, but paffed their lives in full conviction that they had all within their reach that art or nature could... | |
 | History - 1802 - 522 pages
...To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with songs, the subject of which was the Happy- Valley. Their appetites were...by frequent enumerations of different enjoyments, _ and revelry and merriment was the business of every hour, from the dawn of- morning to the close... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with songs, the subject of which was the HAPPY VALLEY. Their appetites were...of different enjoyments, and revelry and merriment were the business of every hour from the dawn of morning to the close of the evening. These methods... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with songs, the subject of which was the Happy Valley. Their appetites were...different enjoyments, and revelry and merriment was the business of every hour from the dawn of morning to the close of even. These methods were generally... | |
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... discord was always raging, and where man preyed upon man. To heighten their opinion of their own felicity, they were daily entertained with songs, the subject of which was the happy valley. 
