 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...distress are often blessings in disguise. Change and alteration form the very essence of the world. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. In order to acquire a capacity for happiness, it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders.... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1810 - 234 pages
...years, but with tears, he would say, how much have I to repent of, and how little time to do it in ! True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noises. It arises, in fhe first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and in the next, from the... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...fields and meadows : in short, it feels every thing it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...fields and meadows : in short, it feels every thing it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...alteration form the very essence of the world. Disappointments and distress are often blessings in disguise. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. In order to icquire. a capacity for happiness, it must be onr firsi stud' to rect'fv inward disorders.... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...scroll from the devouring conflagration, and give it a place among the archives of eternity. HAPPINESS. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...fields and meadows ; in short, it feels every thing it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...distress are often blessings in disguise. Change and alteration form the very essence of the world. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp »nd noise. In order to acquire a capacity for happiness, it must be our first study to rectify inward... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True Happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...fields and meadows: in short, it feels every thing it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On 4he... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...displayed , are able to feteh down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, fioui the enjoyment of one's self ; and in the next, from the friendship and, conversation of a few... | |
 | G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...on en sait faire l'étalage avec art, radoucir la coquette la plus fière et la plus' dédaigneuse. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...fields and meadows : in short, it feels every thing it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the... | |
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions... 
