 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...  Select British Classics - Page 181803Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1883 - 708 pages
...promis'd bliss: Don't you believe they'd run ? Not one will move, Tho' proffer'd to be happy from above. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...division. Horace has carried this thought a great deal further in the motto of my paper, which implies that tho hardships or misfortunes we lie under, are... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...bliss: Don't you believe they'd run ? Not one will move, Though proffered to be happy from above." 1. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...division. Horace has carried this thought a great deal further in the motto of my paper, which implies that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under, are... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1884 - 396 pages
...fire-fly, whose happy convolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. Arthur Helps. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...that which would fall to them by such a division. Addison. So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? We may make these times better, if... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it. ENDEAVOURS OF MANKIND TO GET RID OF THEIR BURDENS. }E~F~ further: he says that the hardships or misfortunes which we lie under, are j more easy to us than those... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - 1886 - 456 pages
...SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE GOOD OLD-FASHIONED GRANDMOTHER. GOD RLESS HER FOREVER. • Our Burdens. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...division. Horace has carried this thought a great deal further: he says that the hardships or misfortunes which we lie under, are more easy to us than those... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 pages
...sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it." ENDEAVORS OF MANKIND TO GET RID OP THEIR BURDENS. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...division. Horace has carried this thought a great deal further ; he says that the hardships or misfortunes which we lie under are more easy to us than those... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...world, And fondly dream each wind and star our friend. 349 THE MOUNTAIN OF MISERIES. JOSEl'II ADDISON. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...division. Horace has carried this thought a great deal further, and implies that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under are more easy to us than those... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 504 pages
...beautiful— a calm death — an immense Came, and affection afterwards for his happy and spotless name." 1] It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...division. Horace has carried this thought a great deal further, and implies that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under are more easy to us than those... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...bark, / It will not matter if you do not hark. Saying. If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast 40 uch pains species, those who now think themselves t lie most unhappy would prefer the share they have already... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 344 pages
...of finding a satisfactory position for the discontented is the most difficult. — TA LI,E;YR AND . It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all...that which would fall to them by such a division. — ADDISON. I was born to other things.— TENNYSON. How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling... | |
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