 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground. — Burke. DCCCCXLV. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions: it loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...up in the au- what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground. — Burke. DCCCCXLV. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions: it loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...distress are often blessings in disguise. Change and alteration form the very essense of the world. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. In order to acquire a capacity for happiness, it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...blessings in disguise. 7. Change and alteration form the very essence of the world. 8. TrueTiappiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. 9. In order to acquire a capacity for happiness, it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders.... | |
 | George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - English language - 1832 - 122 pages
...distress are often blessings in disguise. Change and alteration form the very essence of the world. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise. In order to acquire a capacity for happiness, it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders.... | |
 | Watson Adams - Conduct of life - 1834 - 290 pages
...wise man has in private. Cowley. A solitary life has no charms for an ambitious mind. Abp. of Cambray. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. The man that lives retired, lives quiet. He fears no body, of whom nobody is... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 570 pages
...head of the stairs, and throwing it after, caused Oliver to hasten down faster than he desired. " ' True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few^ select companions. It loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - American wit and humor - 1835 - 312 pages
...head of the stairs, and throwing it after, caused Oliver to hasten down faster than he desired. 16 " ' True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. It loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 568 pages
...head of the slairs, and throwing it after, caused Oliver to hasten down faster than he desired. " ' True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. It loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields... | |
 | James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 618 pages
...of the stairs, and throwing it after, caused Oliver to hasten down faster than he desired. " ' Trae happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to...the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. It loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains,, fields... | |
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions... 
