 | 1907 - 866 pages
...irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered "No!" At this, he goes on, "my heart sank withiu me; the whole foundation on which my life was constructed...fell down. All my happiness was to have been found iu the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1908 - 78 pages
...could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?' And an irrepressible selfconsciousness 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. ******* 9 I sought no comfort... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 500 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 forTJ At first I hoped that the cloud... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1911 - 304 pages
...at that moment, the result would give him no lasting satisfaction. He says with melancholy emphasis, "At this my heart sank within me; the whole foundation...an interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for." These gloomy reflections prostrated him. He quotes Coleridge's lines from Dejection... | |
 | Ramsden Balmforth - 1912 - 252 pages
...be comoletely 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. \11 my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to... | |
 | William Adams Brown - 1912 - 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, No. At this my heart sank within me, and the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. ... I seemed to have nothing left... | |
 | William Adams Brown - 1912 - 246 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, No. At this my heart sank within me, and the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. ... I seemed to have nothing left... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, s "No!" 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 10 have nothing left to live for. At first I hoped that the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 620 pages
...found himself suffering from this mortal depression, he asked himself questions very similar to that within me ; the whole foundation on which my life...ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means ? I seemed to have nothing left to live for . . . and I became persuaded... | |
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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? 
