 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...aside all ornaments and disguises, as in privacy they unflatteringly become useless incum» brances. Smiles and embroidery are alik.e occasional ; and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honour, and fictitious felicity. G m But But to approach still nearer. Disease, it may be said, generally... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...pleasures in domestic life. Emphatic truth commends the observation of a distinguished writer, ' It is at home, that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtues or his felicity.' And in his hours of relaxation, — his robes of office laid... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 290 pages
...ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tertds, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. 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 alike occasional ; and the mind is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is indeed at home thai every man must be known, by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or feJicity; for smiles and embroidery are .alike oo casional, and the mind is... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...not to be suppressed; in these they have the reward of their toils, and to these at last they retire. 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 alike occasional, and the mind is often... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. 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 cmbroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. 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 alike occasional, and the mind is... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 346 pages
...ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every tiesire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by ihose who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and Embroidery are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 pages
...ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts ih,: prosecution. 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 alike occasional, and the mind is often... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 524 pages
...ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man...must be known by those who would make a just estimate «ither 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. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate... 
