 IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Page 197edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 310 pages
...exchange commodious — convenient compassion — pii y It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public...division. Horace has carried this thought a great deal further, and says, that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under are more easy to us than those of... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 416 pages
...the same balance with ourselves." Addison, in one of the papers of The Spectator, enlarges upon the celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes...before that which would fall to them by such a division — by imagining a proclamation made by Jupiter, that every mortal should bring in his griefs and calamities,... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...Sir Rodger de Coverly, who figures in the Spectator, is a delightful creation. Addison died in 1719. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that, if all...distributed among the whole species, those who now thiuk themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ADDISON: Spectator, No. 381. MISERY. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...which would fall to them by such a division. Horace [l Sat. i. I.] has carried this thought a great deal farther in the moito of my paper, which implies... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1876 - 184 pages
...ages, and must be very imperfectly understood unless the plot of the preceding acts be well known. (28) It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...that which would fall to them by such a division. (29) High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison."J IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates,1 that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into...that which would fall to them by such a division. Horace2 has carried this thought a great deal farther, and maintains that the hardships or misfortunes... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. ADDISON : Spectator, No. 381. MISERY. [l Sat. i. I.] has carried this thought a great deal farther in the motto of my pi|>er, which implies... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...itself in, how can our imagination set any bounds to it? Spectator, No. 565. The Mountain of Miseries. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...that which would fall to them by such a division. As I was ruminating upon this, and seated in my elbow-chair, I insensibly fell asleep, when, on a sudden,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 pages
...of Socrates, that if all the misfor tunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to bt equally distributed among the whole species, those...themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share thej are already possessed of, before that which would fall to tiem by such a division. Horace has... | |
 | Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...THE MOUNTAIN OF MISERIES. JO8F.PI1 ADDI80X. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all tho misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among tho whole species, those who BOW think themselves tho most unhappy, would prefer the share they arc... | |
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