 There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.  The Rambler, by S. Johnson - Page 2551806Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 470 pages
...Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DEADEN. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be...trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens to excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 pages
...had my hour. DRYDEN. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be tile to look back on alife usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own...progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shatne nor sorrow, XIx. x Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish one day from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...heav'n itself upon the past has pow'ria But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DHYDEN. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be...been done or suffered to distinguish one day from auother, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been, except that he is conscious how ill... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...progress in existence, by such tokens .-• excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothic; has been done or suffered to distinguish one day from...except that he is conscious how ill he has husbanded tr?. great deposit of his creator. Life, made memorable In crimes, and diversified through its several... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 pages
...; and, lastly, that it is most conducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pages
...; and, lastly, that it is most conducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...by such tokens, as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - 1826 - 314 pages
...that it is most conducive"' to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to lie ablr to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed...; to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens"as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...and', lastly', that it is most conducive to our happinese*. There is certainly no greater felicity', than to be able to look back on a life usefully^ and...such tokens as excite neither shame' nor sorrow*. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to passtheirlasthours with comfort", to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 pages
...virtue; and, lastly, that it is most conducive" to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...employed; to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens0 as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 pages
...no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; la trace our own progress in existence , by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to .pass their last hours with comfort ,'to lay... | |
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