| 1785 - Liczba stron: 596
...fociety has fomething in itfelf eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find it's pleafures fo great that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overbalance them. By the ancient cuftom of the Muftovites, the men and women never faw each other till they were joined beyond the power... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Liczba stron: 466
...fociety has fomething in itfelf eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its, pleafures fo great that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overbalance them. By the ancient cuftom of the Mufcovites, the men and women never faw each other till they were joined beyond the power... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...that fociety has fomething in itfelf eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleafures fo great that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overbalance them. By the ancient cuftom of the Mufcovites, the men and women never faw each other till they were joined beyond the power... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Liczba stron: 626
...that fociety has fomething in itfelf eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleafures fb great that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overbalance them. By the ancient cuftom of the Mufcovites, the' men and women never- faw each other till they were joined beyond the... | |
| Mr. Addison - 1797 - Liczba stron: 712
...that fociety has fomething in itfelf eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleafures fo great that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly over-balance them. By the ancient cuftom of the Mufcovites, the men and women never faw each other till they were joined beyond the power... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1797 - Liczba stron: 604
...that fociety has fomething in itfelf eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleafures fo great that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly over-balance them. By the ancient cuflom of the Mufcovites, the men and women never faw each other till they were joined beyond the power... | |
| 1801 - Liczba stron: 342
...that fociety has fomething in itfelf eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleafures fo great that even the ill choice of • a companion can hardly overbalance them. By the ancient cuftom of the Mufcovites, the men and women never faw each other till they were joined beyond tft power... | |
| 1803 - Liczba stron: 322
...inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity ; and cannot but conclude that society has something...that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overba* lance them. By the ancient custom of the Muscovites, the men and women never saw each other... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - Liczba stron: 594
...to wonder thirt marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears eo little loaded with calamity ; and cannot but conclude, that society has something...in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when we find its pleasures so great, that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly over-balance them.... | |
| 1806 - Liczba stron: 348
...themselves, I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity j and cannot but conclude...men and women never saw each other till they were joined beyond the power of parting. It may be suspected that by this method many unsuitable matches... | |
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