Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest and most universal causes of all our disquiet and unhappiness. When ambition pulls one way, interest another, inclination a third,... The Calendar for the Year ... - 300 ページRoyal University of Ireland 著 - 1859全文表示 - この書籍について
| Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 ページ
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...disquiet and unhappiness. When ambition pulls one away, interest another, inclination a third, and, perhaps, reason contrary to all, a man is likely... | |
| F. Peel - 1874 - 144 ページ
...this and all such life can give, For other prospects he begins to live. — Crabbe. EXERCISE XLVin. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please. When the... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1874 - 166 ページ
...sun, with all its attendant planets, is but a very little part of the grand machine of the universe. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest and most uuivers.il causes of all our disquiet and unhappiness. The duties required of man are such as human... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 ページ
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. 20 Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please. When the... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 ページ
...well assured that they are the scorn of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. 20 Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...ambition pulls one way, interest another, inclination J third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 ページ
...therefore, that improvements in the arts are properly called inventions. DUOALD STEWART. IRRESOLUTION. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. ADDISON. Not to resolve is to resolve : and many times it breeds as... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 ページ
...therefore, that improvements in the arts are properly called inventions. DUGALD STEWART. IRRESOLUTION. amuel Austin causes of all our unhappiness. APDISON. Not to resolve is to resolve : and many times it breeds as... | |
| Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 ページ
...from the self-conscious monarch the exclamation, " Saul o" my body, he is at me already ! " — ADAMS. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves...choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greater and most universal causes of all our disquiet and unhappiness. When ambition pulls one way,... | |
| 1881 - 578 ページ
...well assured that they are the scoru of all good men, and the public marks of infamy and derision. nly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and relig thorn, are the greatest and most universal causes of all our disquiet and unhappiness. When ambition... | |
| Extracts - 1883 - 246 ページ
...— 'It is notorious that they have not/ he added. — 86 V. PASSING THROUGH LIFE. — PRIVATE LIFE. ^IRRESOLUTION on the schemes of life which <^> offer...unhappiness. When ambition pulls one way, interest an other, inclination a third, and perhaps reason contrary to all, a man is likely to pass his time... | |
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