 At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest...  The Quarterly Review - Page 15edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | John L. Mahoney - 1998 - 388 pages
...happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. (81) Juxtapose this, for example, with a passage by Fredric Jameson in The Political Consciousness,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1999 - 298 pages
...happiness to you?" And an irrepressible selfconsciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for.9 Mill goes on to affix blame for his crisis on the associationist psychology of his father's educational... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 pages
...self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this mv heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which mv life was constructed fell down. All my happiness was...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not. A night's sleep, the sovereign... | |
 | Lewis Wolpert - 1999 - 216 pages
...happiness to you?' And an irrepressible self consciousness distinctly answered, 'No!' At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not. A night's sleep, the sovereign... | |
 | Thomas L. Haskell - 2000 - 446 pages
...happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered "No!" At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. (139) No longer inspired by visions of the better world that he and other friends of human improvement... | |
 | John Kekes - 2000 - 250 pages
...heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down... . The end has ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for." Reflecting on what has gone wrong, Mill offers the following diagnosis: "All those to whom I looked... | |
 | Raymond A. Belliotti - 2001 - 198 pages
...sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. . . . The end has ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be...the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for ... 1 was thus ... left stranded . . . without any real desire for the ends which I had b?en so carefully... | |
 | Linda C. Raeder - 2002 - 418 pages
...happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. (Auto, 111-12) The spiritual needs once met by the Benthamite "religion" did not of course disappear... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 2003 - 493 pages
...fell down. All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end has ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. At first I hoped the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not. A night's sleep, the sovereign... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - 2004 - 362 pages
...to you?" And an irrepressible self -consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. Mill's response to this crisis was not to abandon utilitarianism and the radical philosophy of his... | |
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