 | 1906 - 730 pagina’s
...Currer Bell," that happiness can be cultivated, and even taught, when he writes '' I cannot but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the duty of happiness, as wel as on the happiness of duty." The reader has been already warned that this is not to be an orderly... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pagina’s
...(two unfaithful and cruel commanders) to possess him successively ?" l I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our...effectual contribution to the happiness of others. Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on... | |
 | Georg von Giźycki - 1889 - 324 pagina’s
...harmful." Sir John Lubbock says in his little book, " On the Pleasures of Life " : " I cannot but think that the world would be better and brighter if our...effectual contribution to the happiness of others." The sympathy of man will rise higher than ever before. It will be more and more a consolation to a... | |
 | Georg von Gizycki - 1889 - 592 pagina’s
...harmful." Sir John Lubbock says in his little book, " On the Pleasures of Life " : " I cannot but think that the world would be better and brighter if our...effectual contribution to the happiness of others." The sympathy of man will rise higher than ever before. It will be more and more a consolation to a... | |
 | 1889 - 826 pagina’s
...knowledge and holiness without stated and regular seasons of prayer. — Abbott. I CANNOT but think that the world would be better and brighter if our...well as on the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to he as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 pagina’s
...(two unfaithful and cruel commanders) to possess him successively ? " 1 I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our...effectual contribution to the happiness of others. Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on... | |
 | 1890 - 648 pagina’s
...Lubbock "if people were taught the duty of being happy, as well as the happiness of doing our duty. For to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others." To have constant occupation to the end of life is a great help to cheerf ulness, as well as a great... | |
 | Walter Maynard - 1890 - 378 pagina’s
...with Sir John Lubbock in his views of life. He was one of those teachers who, according to Sir John, dwell on the duty of happiness as well as on the happiness of duty. This was the doctrine he taught the thousands who read what he wrote from week to week ; this was the... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 228 pagina’s
...(two unfaithful and cruel commanders) to possess him successively ? " l I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our...effectual contribution to the happiness of others. Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on... | |
 | 1891 - 846 pagina’s
...Lubbock, "if people were taught the duty of being happy, as well as the happiness of doing our duty. For to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others." To have constant occupation to the end of life is a great help to cheerfulness, as well as a great... | |
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... into what dangerous and miserable servitude does he fall who suffereth pleasures and sorrows (two unfaithful and cruel commanders) to possess him successively ? " 1 I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers... 
