 In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: '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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 14edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | John Wooster Robertson - 1921 - 472 pages
...mental depression : I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to; ... the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism...myself: 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; . . . would this be a great joy and happiness to you?' And an irrepressible self-consciousness... | |
 | Nannie Niemeyer - 1921 - 228 pages
...as everybody is occasionally liable to ; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement. . . . In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question to myself : ' Suppose . . . that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking... | |
 | John Wooster Robertson - 1922 - 366 pages
...mental depression : I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to; ... the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism...myself: 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; . . . would this be a great joy and happiness to you?' And an irrepressible self-consciousness... | |
 | Frank Aydelotte - 1923 - 450 pages
...excitement ; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent. ... In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the...myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could... | |
 | Percy Gardner - 1926 - 212 pages
...1826," writes Mill,1 " I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to ; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism...myself, ' Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to could... | |
 | Herbert Wildon Carr - 1928 - 222 pages
...excitement; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent; the state, I should think, in which converts to Methodism...myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could... | |
 | Auburn Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.) - 1906 - 388 pages
...reforming activity, there came upon him a sudden depression of spirit. " It occurred to me," he writes, " to put the question directly to myself : ' Suppose that all your objects in life were realized ; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could... | |
 | John Stuart Mill, Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill - 1970 - 256 pages
...of his strong-willed father. In the fall of 1826, Mill reports: I was in a dull state of nerves. ... It occurred to me to put the question directly to...myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1973 - 564 pages
...compared the sudden and total apathy and anomie into which he fell at the age of twenty to the state "in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first 'conviction of si0.' ... I seemed to have nothing left to live for"; and he illustrated his condition by lines from... | |
 | Robert F. Hobson - 1985 - 340 pages
...the importance of the betterment of mankind, he 'seemed to have nothing left to live for'. He writes: 'In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the...myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could... | |
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