 There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Strana 239podľa Samuel Johnson - 1816Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - Počet stránok 328
...virtue; and, lastly, that it is most conducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a- life usefully and virtuously employed ; ta trace our own" progress in existence, by such tokens as exeite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - Počet stránok 374
...greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously emVOL. xix. x ployed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens...which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish <me day from another, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been, except that he is conscious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 472
...Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what hat been has been, and I have had my hour. . PKYJltK There is certainly no greater happiness than to be...able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously 268 THE RAMBLER. No. 41. employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Počet stránok 468
...Heav'n itself upon the past has liow'r, .But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DKYDEK. There is certainly no greater • happiness than to...able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously 268 THE RAMBLER. No. 41. employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - Počet stránok 280
...virtue ; and, lastly, that it is mostconducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - Počet stránok 278
...; and, lastly, that it is most conducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - Počet stránok 280
...is most conducive to our happiness. look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to (race our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1822 - Počet stránok 312
...invites them to reposc,but to slumber upon it is death. There is certainly no greater felirify.'han to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously...trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as exrite neither shame nor sorrow. It mishf, therefore, to be the care of tivise who wish to pass the... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - Počet stránok 322
...virtue; and lastly, that it is most conducive" to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...employed; to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens0 as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - Počet stránok 466
...heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DRYDEN. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be...nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffe! distinguish one day from another, is to him that has passed it as if it had never been, except... | |
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