 | American periodicals - 1847 - 640 pages
...the greater part ignorant of the character they leave and of the character they assume. — Burlte. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor lends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. — Johnson. LADY MARY. THOU wert fair,... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 436 pages
...leisure, and attend humbly and dutifully upon the issues of his wise and just providenee. — Soath. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to whieh even- enterprise and labour tends, and of whieh every desire prompts the proseeation.— Johnson.... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 430 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...and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. In our opinion, a man who, when he has nothing else to do, can play with his cat at home by the fireside... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...furnished in about equal proportions, so much easier is it to die for religion than to live for it. IT is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and embroidery are aliko occasional, and the mind is... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...of terror amongst the members of his own family. Hence as Dr. Johnson very justly remarks, " it is at home, that every man 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 - 1851 - 360 pages
...he feels, in privacy, (o be useful encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all...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... | |
 | 1851 - 486 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 cud to which every enterprise and labour tends and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 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 enterprize and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is indeed at home... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1852 - 610 pages
...Convolvulácea, 4 " Ranunculáceas, . . 4 " Papaveráceas, . . 2 " " Campanuláceas, . . 1 " " To BE HAPPV AT HOME is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. — Johnson. THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...he feels, in privacy, to be useful encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all...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... | |
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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. 
