 ... the active, and elevation to the eminent, all that sparkles in the eye of hope, and pants in the bosom of suspicion, at once became dust in the balance, without weight and without regard. Riches, authority, and praise, lose all their influence when...  The Rambler - Page 305by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | George Horne - Bible - 1845 - 588 pages
...authority, and praise lose all their influence, when they are considered as riches, which to-morrow shall be bestowed upon another ; authority, which...sincere, shall, after a few moments, be heard no more."* 8. Deliver me from all my transgressions ; make me not the reproach of the foolish. Affliction hath... | |
 | 1858 - 708 pages
...authority, and praise, lose all their influence when they are considered as riches, which, to-morrow, shall be bestowed upon another; authority, which shall...sincere, shall, after a few moments, be heard no more. — JOHNSON. WATCH AND PBAT. — The Rev. Dr. Patten, of New York, stated at a meeting of the American... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...authority, and praise, lose all their influence when they are considered a> riches which to-morrow shall be bestowed upon another, authority which shall...this night expire for ever, and praise which, however menu ed, or however sincere, shall, oiler a few moments, be heard no more. In those hours of seriousness... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1848 - 464 pages
...authority, and praise, lose all their influence, when they are considered as riches, which to-morrow shall be bestowed upon another ; authority, which...sincere, shall, after a few moments, be heard no more 1." 8. Deliver me from all my transgressions ; make me not the reproach of the foolish. Affliction... | |
 | John Kitto - 1853 - 302 pages
...authority, and praise, lose all their influence when they are considered as riches, which to-morrow shall be bestowed upon another ; authority, which...sincere, shall, after a few moments, be heard no more. — JOHNSON. BIETH-DAY HYMN. (ORIGINAL.) I,o ! 'tis a sickly dream. Departed yean Viewed by the lightning... | |
 | George Sherer - 1855 - 152 pages
...authority, and praise, lose all their influence, when they are considered as riches, which to-morrow shall be bestowed upon another ; authority, which...merited, or however sincere, shall, after a few moments, he heard no more.' 8. "Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the foolish."... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Commonplace-books - 1863 - 254 pages
...riches, which shall to-morrow be bestowed on another; authority, which may this night expire forever; and praise, which however merited, or however sincere, shall after a few moments be heard no more." — Dr. Johnson. THE PROVISIONS FOR LIFE. " THE bread of life, is love; The salt of life, is work ;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...whicli, however merited, or however sincere, shall, after a few moments, he heard no more. In ihose hours of seriousness and wisdom, nothing appeared...opportunity for the exercise of the duties of religion. DR. S. JOHNSON : Rambler, No. 54. When a friend is carried to his grave', we at once find excuses for... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...riches which to-morrow shall be bestowed upon another, authority which shall this night expire forever, e of language and succession of images. Every couplet when produced is new, and no lie heard no more. In those hours of seriousness and wisdom, nothing appeared to raise his spirits,... | |
 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...lose all their ^Riches . , " ., j • u influence when they are considered as riches which to-morrow shall be bestowed upon another authority which shall...sincere, shall after a few moments be heard no more. — Rambler, No. 54. Very seldom make their owner richer. — Riches , Idler, No. 73. Riches excludes... | |
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