 | 1804 - 452 Seiten
...letter may be written upon any thing or nothing, just as that any thing or nothing happens to occur. A letter is written as a conversation is maintained or a journey performed, not by preconcerted or premeditated means, a new contrivance or an invention nevev heard of before,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 Seiten
...own letters. He affords consolation to the timid letter-writer by a pleasing and practical remark : ' A letter is written as a conversation is maintained, or a journey performed, not by preconcerted or premeditated means, a new contrivance, or an invention never heard of before,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1805 - 500 Seiten
...charms him, but because it is accommodated to the laws of criticism, in that case made and provided. A letter is written as a conversation is maintained, or a journey performed, not by preconcerted means, a new contrivance, or an invention never heard of before, but merely by... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 394 Seiten
...doubt, whether he shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it ; for he knows, that by the simple operation...conversation is maintained, or a journey performed, not bv preconcerted or premeditated means, a new contrivance, or an invention never heard of before,... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 Seiten
...doubt, whether he shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it; for he knows, that by the simple operation...conversation is maintained, or a journey performed, not by preconcerted or premeditated means, a new contrivance, or an invention never heard before ;... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 Seiten
...doubt, whether he shall set out or'not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it ; for he knows, that by the simple operation...conversation is maintained, or a journey performed, not by preconcerted or premeditated means, a new contrivance, or an invention never heard of before,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 324 Seiten
...doubt whether he shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it; for he knows, that by the simple operation...conversation is maintained, or a journey performed, not by preconcerted or premeditated means, a new contrivance, or an invention never beard of before,... | |
 | 1820 - 688 Seiten
...doubt whether he shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it ; for he knows, that by the simple operation of moving one loot forward first, and then the other, be shall be sure to accomplish it. So it is in the present... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 Seiten
...and doubt whether lie shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he is to reach the end of it, for he knows that by the simple operation...written as a conversation is maintained or a journey is performed, not preconcerted, or by premeditated means, a new contrivance, or an invention never... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 376 Seiten
...doubt whether he shall set out or not, because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end of it ; for he knows that, by the simple operation...conversation is maintained or a journey performed, not by preconcerted or premeditated means, a new contrivance, or an invention never heard of before,... | |
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... or nothing happens to occur. A man that has a journey before him twenty miles in length, which he is to perform on foot, will not hesitate and doubt whether he shall set out or not because he does not readily conceive how he shall ever reach the end... 
