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" To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. "
The Young Husband's Book: A Manual of the Duties, Moral, Religious, and ... - Page 108
1839 - 288 pages
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The Christian Observer, Volume 31

Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...pleasures in domestic life. Emphatic truth commends the observation of a distinguished writer, ' It is at home, that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtues or his felicity.' And in his hours of relaxation, — his robes of office laid aside, and his...
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition ; the end to which every enterprise...desire prompts the prosecution. It is indeed at home thai every man must be known, by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or feJicity;...
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The British Essayists;: Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 308 pages
...incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every deģire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. [Another], Volume 1

1810 - 464 pages
...incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise...estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and cmbroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honour and fictitious...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise...prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must bfe known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 346 pages
...result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every tiesire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by ihose who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and Embroidery are...
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The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 2

Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 pages
...incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise...and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts ih,: prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 524 pages
...incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise...must be known by those who would make a just estimate Ģither of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is...
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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature. [Continued as] The ...

1833 - 636 pages
...own family. Hence, as Dr. Johnson very justly remarks, "it is at home that every man must he known hy those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and emhroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor and fictitious...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 468 pages
...incumbrances, and so lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise...must be known by those who would make a just estimate 4$2 THE RAMBLER. No. 68. either of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional,...
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