 | 1820 - 646 pages
...Reynolds, when young, wrote rules of conduct for himself. One of his maxims was, " that the great principle of being happy in this world, " is, not to mind or be affected with small things. " To this rule he strictly adhered ; and the constant habit of controlling his mind... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1819 - 614 pages
...Reynolds, when young, wrote rules of conduct for himself. One of his maxims was, " that the great principle of being happy " in this world, is, not to mind or be " affected with small things." To this rule he strictly adhered ; and the constant habit of controlling his mind... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Art - 1844 - 476 pages
...Reynolds, when young, wrote rules of conduct for himself. One of his maxims was, ' that the great principle of being happy in this world, is, not to mind or be affected with small things.' To this rule he strictly adhered; and the constant habit of controlling his mind... | |
 | Railway readings - 1847 - 172 pages
...corruption, cowardice, imbecility, infamy, and slavery. Maxim of Sir Joshua Reynolds.—The great principle of being happy in this world is not to mind or be affected with small things. Johnson said of him, " Reynolds is the most invulnerable man I have ever known."... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - Artists - 1865 - 758 pages
...his boyhood he composed rules of conduct for himself, one of which was, that " the great principle of being happy in this world is, not to mind or be affected with small things." l There seems, indeed, to be no good reason to charge the memory of his father... | |
 | Bernard Cracroft - 1868 - 348 pages
...himself." (One of these, another variation on the " noble maxim of Mr. Mudge," was that the great principle of being happy in this world is not to mind, or be affected with, small things. Sir Joshua carefully adhered to it through life.) It is plain, too, that he must... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - Art - 1873 - 508 pages
...himself. One of his maxims * Fom the Edinburgh Serum for August, 1820. was, ' that the great principle of being happy in this world, is not to mind or be affected with small things.' To this rule he strictly adhered ; and the constant habit of controlling his mind... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1878 - 188 pages
...of rules which he composed for himself, appears the philosophical maxim, that " The great principle of being happy in this world is, not to mind or be affected by small things." At an early day he found the Jesuit's Treatise on Perspective, and studied it carefully and intelligently,... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - Artists - 1879 - 196 pages
...of rules which he composed for himself, appears the philosophical maxim, that " The great principle of being happy in this world is, not to mind or be affected by small things." At an early day he found the Jesuit's Treatise on Perspective, and studied it carefully and intelligently,... | |
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that the great principle of being happy in this world, " is, not to mind or be affected with small things. 
