 I want likewise the 25 counsel and conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return into the world to-morrow. The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly...  Rasselas: A Tale - Page 68by Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 155 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 256 pages
...conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils 25 with the advantages of society, and resolved to return into the world to-morrow. The life of a...short pause offered to conduct him to Cairo. He dug 30 up a considerable treasure which he had hid among the rocks, and accompanied them to the city, on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1898 - 228 pages
...likewise the . counsel and conversation of the good. ' I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages ' of society, and resolve to return into...pause, offered to conduct him to Cairo. ^He dug up a con- 30 siderable treasure which he had hid among the rocks, and accompanied them to the city, on which,... | |
 | 1910 - 214 pages
...want likewise the counsel and conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return into...but after a short pause offered to conduct him to Cario. He dug up a considerable treasure which he had hid among the rocks, and accompanied them to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 260 pages
...comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return into the world to morrow. The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly dgvout.7 V^f^ They heard his resolution with surprise, but, after a short pause, offered to conduct... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 368 pages
...shows that his feeling for the active life was constant. Cf. the sardonic observations in Rasselas: The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout. (Chap. 11.) He that lives well in the world is better than he that lives well in a monastery. But,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1934 - 640 pages
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 | 1960 - 290 pages
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 | Robert Wieder - 1944 - 220 pages
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