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" Happy are they which live not in that disadvantage of time, when men could say little for futurity, but from reason... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 287
by Samuel Johnson - 1820
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 428 pages
...ignorantly or coldly be^ lieved, begat thofe perverted Conceptions, Cere' monies, Sayings, which Chrjftians pity or laugh * at. Happy are they, which live not in that Dif' advantage of Time, when Men could fay little for 1 Futurity, but from Reafon ; whereby the nobleft...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 392 pages
...jgnorantly or coldly be' lieved, begat thofe perverted Conceptions, Cere* monies, Sayings, which Chriftians pity or laugh * at. Happy are they, which live not in that Dif* advantage of Time, when Men could fay little for * Futurity, but from Reafon ; whereby the nobleft...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous lives

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...ignorantly or coldly be" lieved, begat thofe perverted conceptions, ceremo" nies, fayings, which Chriftians pity or laugh at. " Happy are they, which live not in that difadvantage ** of time, when men could fay little for futurity, but " from reafon; whereby the nobleft...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 672 pages
...ignorantly or coldly be" lieved, begat thofe perverted conceptions, ceremo" nies, fayings, which Chriftians pity or laugh at. " Happy are they, which live not in that difad vantage ff of time, when men could fay little for futurity, but " from reafon; whereby the nobleft...
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Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [chiefly of Johnson, ed. by T ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 402 pages
...too frequently recollected: * Wood, and Life of Sir Thomas Browne. f At Ihc end of Hydriotaphia. " All or most apprehensions rested in opinions " of...ignorantly or " coldly believed, begat those perverted con" ceptious, ceremonies, sayings, which christians " pity or laugh at. Happy are they, which live...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...the body were distinguished from those of other substances. Of the uselessness of these enquiries, Browne seems not to have been ignorant ; and, therefore,...of " some future being, which, ignorantly or coldly be" lieved, begat those perverted conceptions, ceremo" nies, sayings, which Christians pity or laugh...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 566 pages
...the body were distinguished from those of other substances. Of the uselessness of these enquiries, Browne seems not to have been ignorant ; and, therefore,...of " some future being, which, ignorantly or coldly be" lieved, begat those perverted conceptions, cere*' monies, sayings, which Christians pity or laugh...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 870 pages
...the body were distinguished from those of other substances. Of the uselessness of thes6 enquiries, Browne seems not to have been ignorant ; and, therefore,...of " some future being, which, ignorantly or coldly be" lieved, begat those perverted conceptions, cere" monies, sayings, which Christians pity or laugh...
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The London Christian instructor, or, Congregational magazine, Volume 6

1823 - 748 pages
...have lastingly denied it in their practise and conversation, were a quaery t'xisad to insist on. " But all or most apprehensions rested in opinions of some future being, which ignorantly or coldly beleeved, beget those perverted conceptions, ceremonies, sayings, which Christians pity or laugh at....
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby]., Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 554 pages
...when the practice of cremation began, or when it was disused ; whether the bones of different persons were mingled in the same urn ; what oblations were...perverted conceptions, ceremonies, sayings, which cbristians pity or laugh at. Happy are they, which live not in that disadvantage of time, when men...
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