 It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the...  The Journal of Education - Page 251909Full view - About this book
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 806 pages
...—something that would not hinder me from having a good deal of pleasure." " That is not easy, my Lillo. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts,... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...something that would not hinder me from having a good deal of pleasure." "That is not easy, my Lillo. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1863 - 658 pages
...poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness , such as goes along with being a great man , by having wide thoughts , and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 pages
...and very happy besides — something that will not hinder you from having a good deal of pleasure. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...man, and very happy besides—something that will not hinder you from having a good deal of pleasure. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...we hear the voice of Herr Teufelsdrockh and the "Everlasting Yea" when Romola declares to Lillo, "We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world, as well as for ourselves... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...something that would not hinder me from having a good deal of pleasure. " That is not easy, my Lillo. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. Wu can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts,... | |
 | 1872 - 894 pages
...found them for the uses of life ; how patiently and persistently she luid acquired their lesson. " It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...threads of her history, and interpret its significance to the world, this is what she said to Lillo : " It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts,... | |
 | 1873 - 778 pages
...threads of her history, and interpret its significance to the world, this is what she said to Lillo : " It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts,... | |
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