 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1852 - 610 pages
...Convolvulácea, 4 " Ranunculáceas, . . 4 " Papaveráceas, . . 2 " " Campanuláceas, . . 1 " " To BE HAPPV AT HOME is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. — Johnson. THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE.... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - 1854 - 710 pages
...he may live, but that he may live like a Christian, and like a Gentleman. Dr. Johnson says, that " to be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution." " Blest as the immortal Gods is he,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 730 pages
...give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. 4035. To be happy a,t home Is the ultimate result of all ambition ; the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. 4036. It is indeed, at home that every... | |
 | 1858 - 396 pages
...to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all elFect when they become familiar. To be happy at i.ome is the ultimate result of all ambition — the end...must be known by those who would make a just estimate of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed... | |
 | Robert Morris - 1858 - 534 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, and of which every desire prompts prosecution. It is indeed at home that every man must... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...throws aside the ornaments and disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy...labour tends. and of which every desire prompts the execution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would have a just estimate... | |
 | 1868 - 848 pages
...throws aside the ornaments and disguises which he feels, in privacy, to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy...all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tend, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is indeed at home that every man... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1869 - 320 pages
...there may be happiness denied to the dweller in a palace. "To be happy at home," said Dr. Johnson, " is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to...and of which every desire prompts the prosecution." Progress and civilization have been in the main the results of home influence ; the desire of public... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1869 - 644 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,... | |
 | 1872 - 738 pages
...throws aside the ornaments and 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, and of which every desire prompts the execution. It is, indeed, at home that every man... | |
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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. 
