 | Mrs. Henry Peterson - 1864 - 908 pagina’s
...stairs. Over the doors, again, wore scenes from Roman history: over tho grate, in letters of gold, ' True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noue.' '• She had soon almost a school. Besides Mdllc. Adelaide d'Orléans, whose twin-sister died... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pagina’s
...melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches ; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. HUME. 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... | |
 | 1881 - 946 pagina’s
...poverty. THE desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it, 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 pagina’s
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pagina’s
...displayed, are able to fetch down the most airy coquette from the wildest of her flights and rambles. 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... | |
 | william francis ainsworth - 1876 - 732 pagina’s
...human life as it is shown in its different phases will doubtless feel disposed to say with Addison, " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." But it is indispensable for one who has been brought to see the worth of true religion, and the emptiness... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pagina’s
...due to the pleasing labour of the present composition. GIBBON: Decline and Fall, chap, lii., note. 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... | |
 | Tales - 1876 - 202 pagina’s
...his sisters. She shows Johnny's copy-book, and the sampler-piece Lydia has worked, with the motto, " True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." " And that's true, too, ma'am," says Lucy. " Maurice says there's sense in it, and is going to have... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pagina’s
...are due to the pleasing labour of the present composition. GIBBON: Decline and Fall, chap, hi., note. be observed that this power of the imagination is incapable of produ : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship... | |
 | P. Sands - 1882 - 624 pagina’s
...ni ф I may be done better without either. fann »erben gctbïn bejfer ofyne ein ober ba3 SInbere. 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... | |
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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; it loves shade and solitude, and... 
