 | 1842 - 482 pages
...he feels, in privacy, to be useless 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 labor tends, an,l of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every... | |
 | 1843
...follow him to the S'ivacy of his own home ; " forthere it is," as r. Johnson truly observes, "that a man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity. If a man carries virtue with him into his private apartments, —... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...he ft-elt in privacy to be useless incumbrances, 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... | |
 | Child rearing - 1843 - 322 pages
...which he feels in privacy to be useless 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 labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution. It is indeed a theme by which every man... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...him in England to sadden fts 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,... | |
 | 1844 - 686 pages
...be 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 end to which enterprize and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...that ilie is the image of God ; and defects, in order to show tliat she is only his image. — Pascal. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and Wwur tends, and of which every desire prompts the proscrution. — Johnson. CONTENTS. King Henry V.... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 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...prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man mast be known by those who would make a just estimate of his virtue, or felicity ; for smiles and embroidery... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home > - the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which...prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must bo known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and... | |
 | 1847 - 828 pages
...privacy to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at bome is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to...labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the execution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would have a just estimate... | |
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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. 
