 There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.  The Works of Samuel Johnson - 271 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1816全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 ページ
...were never to have a beginning.* There certainly is no greater happiness (and in this all will agree) than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed; and to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. Ought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 ページ
...it in his way; but he who catches it in retrospection, turns back to find it. Idler, vol. i, p. in. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be...by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with com" Q2 fort, ,fort,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 ページ
...which invites them to repose ; but to slumber upon it is death. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able •to look back on a life usefully...by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those, who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to 1 v up... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - 1809 - 238 ページ
...from such dangers in future, they will surely be useful. There is no greater happintss on earth thtfn to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed — to trace our progress through this vale of sorrow and temptation without disgrace or oppression, — to see honour... | |
 | 1810 - 464 ページ
...heav'n itself upon the past lias pow'r, But what has been has been, and J have had my hour. DRYDEN, There is certainly no greater happiness than to be...shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done pr suffered to distinguish one day from another, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been,... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 ページ
...; and, lastly, that it is most conducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...by such tokens -as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of thoie who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 ページ
...Hqav'n itself upon die past has pow'r. But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DRYDEW. - There is certainly no greater happiness than to be...employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by buch tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 394 ページ
...rains. Not heav'n itself upon the past has pow*r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuouslyemployed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 ページ
...; and, lastly, that it is most conducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the List hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | 1813 - 594 ページ
...facility, than to be able to look back on a life nei-fiil and virtuously employed — to trace our progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
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