 Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is always laudable, even when the enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it; to rest below his own aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active,...  The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present - vii 페이지저자: Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard George Carr Laughton - 1898전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Samuel Johnson - 1768 - 1002 페이지
...eienipHfied, many fenies have efcaped obfervation. Yet thefe failures, however fiequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is always laudable, even when the enterprize is above the ftrength that undertakes it : To reft below his own aim is incident to every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 페이지
...Execution ; and that whatever Abilities I had brought to my Talk, with thofe I muft finally perform it. To deliberate whenever I doubted, to enquire whenever...the Undertaking without End, and, perhaps, without much Improvement ; for I did not fmd by my firft Experiments, that what I had not of my own was eafily... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 페이지
...exemplified, many fenfes have efcaped obfervation. Yet thefe failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is always laudable, even when the enterprize is above the ftrength that undertakes it:. To reft below his own aim is incident to every... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 페이지
...clouds of prejudice, and his arguments degenerate into sophistical declamation. Yet, in his own words, " to have attempted much is always laudable even when...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it ; to rest below his aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active, and whose views are comprehensive."... | |
 | 1804 - 518 페이지
...somewhat similar, when he regrets the imperfections of his dictionary of the English language — " To have attempted much, is always laudable even when...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it : to rest below his own aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active and whose views are comprehensive;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 페이지
...exemplified, many senses have escaped observation. Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it : To rest below his own aim is incident to every one •whose fancy is active, and whose views are comprehensive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 페이지
...exemplified, many sense* have escaped observation. Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is always laudable, even when the enterprize is above the strength that undertakes it : To rest below his own aim is incident to every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 페이지
...exemplified, many senses have escaped observation. Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted much is...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it ; to rest below -his own aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active, and whose views are comprehensive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 페이지
...Yet these failures, however frequent, may admit extenuation and apology. To have attempted inuch.is always laudable, even when the enterprise " is above the strength that undertakes it : To rest J)elow his own aim is incident to every one whose fancy is active,, and whose views are comprehensive... | |
 | South Carolina, Joseph Brevard - 1814 - 620 페이지
...the civil jurisprudence of the state from it:; origin, to say, in the language of Dr. Johnson, that "to have attempted much is always laudable, even when...enterprise is above the strength that undertakes it:" and he presumes, however extravagant it may appear, to prefer a wish, that our laws may hereafter be... | |
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