You cannot hope for anything like contentment so long as you continue to attach that ridiculous degree of importance to the events of this life which so many people are inclined to do. Observe the effect which it has upon them ; they are most uncomfortable... Essays Written in the Intervals of Business - Page 15by Sir Arthur Helps - 1843 - 148 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1871 - 548 pages
...his fellow-men is the test of merit, and their applause the principal reward for exertion. ***** " You cannot hope for anything like contentment, so...attach that ridiculous degree of importance to the e%ent of this life, which so many people are inclined to do. Observe the effect which it has upon them... | |
| 1856 - 386 pages
...life may be sure that he does not love his fellow-creatures as he ought. You cannot hope for any thing like contentment so long as you continue to attach...projects do not turn out according to their fancy. In all they undertake they feel the anxiety of a gambler, and not the calmness of a laboring man. It... | |
| Calcutta univ - 1859 - 254 pages
...greatest aids to contentment that a man can possess. The lives of many persons are an alternation <3f the one engrossing pursuit, and a sort of listless...little projects do not turn out according to their fancy—nothing is to be angular to them—they regard external things as the only realities; and as... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1870 - 434 pages
...But who can hope for anything like contentment, as Mr. Helps somewhere asks, so long as he continues to attach that ridiculous degree of importance to...which so many people are inclined to do ? Observe, he bids us, the effect which it has upon them : they are most uncomfortable if their little projects... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 pages
...like contentment, as Mr. Helps somelere asks, so long as he continues to attach that ridiculous igree of importance to the events of this life which so many people are inclined to do ? Observe, he bids us, the effect which it has upon them : they are most uncomfortable if their little projects... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1871 - 416 pages
...But who can hope for anything like contentment, as Mr. Helps somewhere asks, so long as he continues to attach that ridiculous degree of importance to...which so many people are inclined to do ? Observe, he bids us, the effect which it has upon them : they are most uncomfortable if their little projects... | |
| 1874 - 820 pages
...It is now deposited in the museum of St. Germain. For centuries it has been used as a horse trough. You cannot hope for anything like contentment so long...are most uncomfortable if their little projects do turn out according to their fancy — nothing is to be angular to them ; they regard external things... | |
| University of Calcutta - 1912 - 746 pages
...of other maidens are. 4. Translate idiomatically one of the two following extracts : — 15 -i (a) You cannot hope for anything like contentment so long...importance to the events of this life which so many people aro inclined to do. Observe the effect which it has upon them : they are most uncomfortable if their... | |
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