be executed, and in the ospects that cannot be ap al dream in which we all ne: every man thinks the he shall be gratified with ich he shall leave all those who are now rejoicing like ation of victory; the day is e servile in which they shall obscure in which they shall be deformed in which they shall ers has looked with so little rld about him, as to imagine exaggerated beyond probabil little upon his own life; let were his hopes and prospects what additions he then exy ten years to his happiness: w elapsed; have they made hat was extorted from them, 1 his fortune, enlarged his ed his conduct, to the degree ed? I am afraid, every man opes, must confess his dis alion in the well for her you Of the much of this remark every day is confirmation: there is so fines n that day has glided unand that he is still at the e point of happiness. tions can those, who have eir chief design, elude the success? with what amusey their discontent, after the THE ADVENTURER. Tentanda via est; qua me quoque possim No. 69. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1753. Ferè libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.-Cæsar.2 Men willingly believe what they wish to be true. ULLY has long ago observed, that no man, however weakened by long life, is so conscious of his own decrepitude, as not to imagine that he may yet hold his station in the world for another year.3 Of the truth of this remark every day furnishes new confirmation: there is no time of life, in which men for the most part seem less to expect the stroke of death, than when every other eye 1 Georgics, iii. 8. 2 Gallic War, iii. 18. 8 "Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere."-De Senectute, vii. 24. THE ADVENTURER. Tentanda via est; qua me quoque possim No. 69. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1753. Ferè libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.-CÆSAR,2 Men willingly believe what they wish to be true. ULLY has long ago observed, that no man, however weakened by long life, is so conscious of his own decrepitude, as not to imagine that he may yet hold his station in the world for another year.3 Of the truth of this remark every day furnishes new confirmation: there is no time of life, in which men for the most part seem less to expect the stroke of death, than when every other eye 1 Georgics, iii. 8. 2 Gallic War, iii. 18. 8 "Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere."-De Senectute, vii. 24. |