 ... 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
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...end hi« journey, because it terminates his prospect; but he no sooner ariivcs 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, I but may... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 482 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." Addison, using words applicable to every person who is heedless of those possibilities, says : " Thou... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect ; but he no sooner arrives at it than he sees ʛ 0 { 0 x { ¼ so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is no one who has observed any thing but may observe... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect; but he no sooner arrives at it than he sees unbroken. The Majestic, Captain Westcott, got entangled with the main rigging of o so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is no one who has observed any thing but may observe... | |
 | 1883 - 884 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." The simile no doubt passed through many hands before it became the possession of that gentleman who... | |
 | William Wheeler - Spectator - 1892 - 200 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... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1116 pages
...must end his journey, because it terminates his prospect; but he no sooner arrives at it than he sees nhc5+ No doubt the simile had passed through many more hands before it finally reached Rousseau, who, in... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - Curiosa - 1892 - 1114 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." No doubt the simile had passed through many more hands before it finally reached Rousseau, who, in... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 420 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.1 ' This is so plainly every man's condition in life, that there is no one who has observed... | |
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