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Tn-. superable obstacles having arisen against the union sin CHARLES GRANDISON.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

All cultivation requires watchfulness and additional precautions, either more or less: you must not, for the sake of a few superable difficulties, resign the otherwise unattainable refinement effected by poetry.

The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends An English Lady

But, were I to allow, that the obstacle in question, is as great, as you regard it -- nevertheless will it not increase with the lapse of years, and become less superable the longer the work of abolition is postponed?

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

No inconvenience is less superable by art or diligence than the inclemency of climates, and therefore none affords more proper exercise for this philosophical abstraction.

The Rambler, sections 171-208 (1751-1752); The Adventurer, sections 34-108 (1753); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV 1751

It is indeed certain, that impressions of dread may sometimes be unluckily made by objects not in themselves justly formidable; but when fear is discovered to be groundless, it is to be eradicated like other false opinions, and antipathies are generally superable by a single effort.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

No inconvenience is less superable by art or diligence than the inclemency of climates, and therefore none affords more proper exercise for this philosophical abstraction.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

Our firmness is by the continual contemplation of misery, hourly impaired; every submission to our fear enlarges its dominion; we not only waste that time in which the evil we dread might have been suffered and surmounted, but even where procrastination produces no absolute increase of our difficulties, make them less superable to ourselves by habitual terrours.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

He was not, he said, deterred by the danger and difficulty which was evi - dently to be encountered, but he was deterred by the ignominy of desertion, to be followed by the hypo - crisy of enlisting with the enemy; neither of which comported with his feelings, and either placed an in - superable bar in his way to promotion.

Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States 1812