... as fast as we attain them ? Our case is like that of a traveller upon the Alps, who should fancy that the top of the next hill must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect ; but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground and other... The Spectator - Page 1641729Full view - About this book
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect; but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground "and other hills beyond it, and continues to travel on as before. his appetite to something future remains. The use therefore I would make of it is, that since Nature... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 292 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect; but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground and other hills beyond it; and continues to travel on as before, (c) ' This is so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is no one who has observed any thing,... | |
| Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 288 pages
...end his journey, because it terminates his prospect ; but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground and other hills beyond it, and continues to travel on as before. This is so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is no one, who has observed any thing, but may... | |
| Thomas Huntingford - Intermediate state - 1829 - 530 pages
...end his journey, because it terminates his prospect : but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground and other hills beyond it, and continues to travel on as before. " This is so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is no one, who has observed any thing, but may... | |
| 1836 - 932 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect; but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground and other hills beyond it, and continues to travel on as before. 'This is so plainly every man's condition in life, that there "is no one who has observed any thing, but may... | |
| Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect; but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground and other hills beyond it, and continues to travel on as before. 'This is so plainly every man's condition in life, that there "is no one who has observed any thing, but may... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect; but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees d fables that are come from father to son, and are most in vogue among the common peo so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is no one who has observed any thing, but may... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 558 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect; but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground and other hills beyond it; and continues to travel on as before.* ' This is so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is no one who has observed any thing, but may... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...it, than he sees new ground, and other hills nd it, and continues to travel on as before, lit is so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is no one who has observed anything, but may observe, that as f«st us his time wears away, his appetite to something... | |
| 1854 - 630 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect: but he no sooner arrives at it, than he sees new ground, and other hills beyond it, and continues to travel on as before. " This is so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is • No. 111. + No. 93. 182 CHE SPECTATOR. [No.... | |
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