 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 pages
...lost its victory. SOUTHEY. March 12. It is a noble thing to live. PKOFESSOR BLACKIE. Happy the man, His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of fortune, and resigned to fate. DRYDEN. And happy, too, no doubt, for if the outside world is cold, happiness makes the blood to glow... | |
 | 1891 - 866 pages
...study of agriculture in some sort is doubtless about as old as the occupation. Virgil's couplet, " Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause," was written almost two thousand years ago. But not until comparatively recent times... | |
 | Virgil - 1884 - 328 pages
...inglorious life. A country cottage near a crystal flood, A winding valley and a lofty wood. * * * * * Happy the man who, studying Nature's laws, ' Through known effects can trace the secret cause ; His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of fortune, and resigned to fate." Virgil's... | |
 | Ludwig Büchner - 1884 - 554 pages
...beautifully is this sentiment expressed by Virgil, in the famous lines so felicitously rendered byDryden: — Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause — His mind, possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of fortune and resigned to fate! Any... | |
 | William Howitt - 1888 - 412 pages
...sacred shades Where Bacchanals are sung by Spartan maids ; Or lift me high to Hemus' hilly crown, Or in the plains of Tempe lay me down, Or lead me to some...solitary place, And cover my retreat from human race. Turn now to the modern world of literature; and what a blaze of light, what a warmth, what a spirit,... | |
 | Ludwig Büchner - 1891 - 420 pages
...Dryden: — " Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause His mind, possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of fortune and resigned to fifte!" <i Any other opinion, which seeks to refer the destiny of man to its relation with an unknown,... | |
 | George Gore - 1899 - 604 pages
...they must. " Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause — His mind, possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of fortune and resigned to fate." — Dryden. Some persons appear to doubt the complete uniformity of Nature in universal causation,... | |
 | George Gore - 1899 - 596 pages
...motion of a steam engine. The truest charity is to always remember that all men do as they must. " Happy the man, who, studying Nature's laws. Through known effects can trace the secret cause — His mind, possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of fortune and resigned to fate."... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1900 - 310 pages
...Georgics," ii. 490 : " Happy the man who studying nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause. His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless...fate. And happy too is he who decks the bowers Of Silvans, and adores the rural powers ; Whose mind unmoved the bribes of courts can see, Their glittering... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - 1900 - 312 pages
...sworn to the words of any particular teacher. Here is Virgil's ideal from the " Georgics," ii. 490 : " Happy the man who studying nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause. His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of fortune, and resigned to fate. And... | |
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Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause — His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of Fortune, and resigned to Fate! 
