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" Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to could be completely effected at this very instant; would this be a great joy and happiness to you? "
Contributions to Natural History and Papers on Other Subjects - Page 92
by James Simson - 1875 - 182 pages
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Forms of Feeling: The Heart of Psychotherapy

Robert F. Hobson - 1985 - 340 pages
...this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down . . . The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for ... For some months the cloud...
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John Stuart Mill: Critical Assessments, Volume 4

John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 380 pages
...preferred to call 'an irrepressible self-consciousness', distinctly answered, 'No!' "He was dumbfounded. 'At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation...ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for.' Soberly, he went to bed, to...
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James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century

Bruce Mazlish - 1988 - 524 pages
...could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered,...ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. At first I hoped that the cloud...
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The Victorian Age in Prose

Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 pages
...could be completely effected at this very instant : would this be great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered,...ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. At first I hoped that the cloud...
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Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology

Wolf Lepenies - 1988 - 404 pages
...very instant would this be a great joy and happiness to you?' And an irrepressible self- consciousness distinctly answered, 'No!' At this my heart sank within...foundation on which my life was constructed fell down ... I seemed to have nothing left to live for.2 Mill was struck by this crisis in the year Auguste...
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Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present: With a ...

W. W. Rostow - 1992 - 733 pages
...could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered,...ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. Mill has described his crisis...
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Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology

Nicholas Rescher - 1990 - 224 pages
...could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered,...foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. The experiences of this period had two very marked effects on my opinions and character. In the first...
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Care and Commitment: Taking the Personal Point of View

Jeffrey Blustein - 1991 - 284 pages
...instant; would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible selfconsciousness directly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me; the...ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. 1 The source of Mill's breakdown...
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Becoming Bamboo: Western and Eastern Explorations of the Meaning of Life

Robert Edgar Carter - 1992 - 244 pages
...could be completely effected at this very instant; would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered,...foundation on which my life was constructed fell down." Fowler remarks that such life crises often result in growth and development in faith, for "each of...
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The Examined Life

John Kekes - 2010 - 206 pages
...very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me: the...foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. . . . The end has ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? I seemed...
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