| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all nmbilion, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends,...must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is... | |
| Husbands - 1839 - 302 pages
...encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate resnlt of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise...must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...him in England to sadden its hopes, and check its buoyancy. " To be happy at home," says Johnson, " is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends." But Lord Byron had no home, — at least none that deserved this endearing name. A fond family circle,... | |
| 1839 - 330 pages
...he feels, in privacy, to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the cud to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts tho prosecution. It... | |
| 1839 - 630 pages
...feels, in privacy, to bo úseles« encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, tho end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts tho prosecution.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...which he feels in privacy to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all...must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To bo happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and lahour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every... | |
| Samuel Maunder - Classical dictionaries - 1840 - 874 pages
...subsequent member of * sentence, the latter answer correctly to the former ; u, Either— or: " It It, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity." Neither—nor: "No man is obliged to learn and know every thing:... | |
| William Pulleyn - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 844 pages
...the subsequent member of a sentence, the latter answer correctly to the former ; as, Either— or: " It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who voufd make a just estimate either of 1. 'Irtue or felicity." Neither— nor: "No man It obliged to... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and lo lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all...enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompte the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make... | |
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