 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 páginas
...bllss : Dont you believe they'd run ? Not one will move, Tho' profler'd to be happy from above. Hocnoc. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...equally distributed among the whole species, those who not think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share tber are already possessed of, before... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 704 páginas
...bliss: Don't you believe they'd run ? Not ono will move, Tbo' proffer'd to be happy from above. HOBNXCK. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whgle species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 páginas
...repay, Shook thousand Coders from his dewy wings. CXX. — DISCONTENT. — AN ALLEGORY. I'YoM AmnsoN. 1. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...such a division. Horace has carried this thought a good deal further, and supposes that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under, are more easy to us,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 páginas
...the day rolls on, and " the night cometh, when no man can work." Idler. 15. 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... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 páginas
...coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison." 1. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further: he maintains tinat the hardships or misfortunes we lie under, are more easy to us, than those of any... | |
 | John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 248 páginas
...they possess several colonies abroad. LESSON LXXXIX. THE MOUNTAIN OF MISERIES, OR ADDISON'S DREAM.* It is a celebrated thought of Soc'-ra-tes, that if...that which would fall to them by such a division. As I was ruminating on this subject, seated in my elbow chair, I insensibly fell asleep; when, on a... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 páginas
...space to exert itself in, how can our imagination set any bounds to it 1 3. 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 páginas
...THOMAS DE QUINCEY. 120. THE BURDENS OF MANKIND.—A DREAM. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, 3 that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into...which would fall to them by such a division. Horace 3 has carried this thought a great deal further: he says that the hardships or misfortunes wh ;h we... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 páginas
...Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and finishings. THE MOUNTAIN OF MISERIES. — (ADDISON.) IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that, if all...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further, which implies, that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under, arc more easy to us than those of any... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 páginas
...space to exert itself in, how can our imagination set any bounds to it? 3. 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,... | |
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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... 
