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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. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 419
by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820
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Life, Letters, and Journals of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...him in England to sadden its hopes, and check its buoyancy. " To be happy at home," says Johnson, " is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends." But Lord Byron had no home, — at least none that deserved this endearing name. A fond family circle,...
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The Young Husband's Book: A Manual of the Duties, Moral, Religious, and ...

1839 - 302 pages
...throws aside the ornaments or disguises, which he feels in privacy to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate resnlt of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire...
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The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To bo happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and lahour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every...
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The Treasury of Knowledge and Library Reference

Samuel Maunder - 1840 - 874 pages
...subsequent member of * sentence, the latter answer correctly to the former ; u, Either— or: " It It, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity." Neither—nor: "No man is obliged to learn and know every thing:...
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The Etymological Compendium: Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions

William Pulleyn - 1840 - 844 pages
...the subsequent member of a sentence, the latter answer correctly to the former ; as, Either— or: " It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who voufd make a just estimate either of 1. 'Irtue or felicity." Neither— nor: "No man It obliged to...
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Irish Penny Journal, Volume 1

1841 - 435 pages
...throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy...must be known by those who would make a just estimate of his virtue or felioity ; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 40

1842 - 468 pages
...philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him, — to the length of sixpence. — T. Carlyle. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all...must be known by those who would make a just estimate of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles or embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With and Essay on His Life ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...throws aside the ornaments or disguises, which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and lo lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy...enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompte the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make...
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The Baltimore Phœnix & Budget, Volume 1

1842 - 482 pages
...throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels, in privacy, to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy...all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, an,l of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every...
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