| 1889 - 540 páginas
...true, but after his definition it was blessed. " There is," he writes, " in man a higher than love cf happiness ; he can do without happiness and instead thereof find blessedness ! Was it not to preach forth this same higher that sages and martyrs, the poet and the priest, in all times have spoken... | |
| William Sumner Appleton - 1890 - 418 páginas
...a serious man well may. Life means to him the service of truth and celestial obligation. He says: " There is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness :...and instead thereof find Blessedness ! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken... | |
| 1890 - 540 páginas
...better than they ; and the general lesson which it conveys, as put in the words of Thomas Carlyle : " There is in man a Higher than love of happiness ;...happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness," is undoubtedly true and important ; but is taught in this instance at least, needlessly, as it seems... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 páginas
...conception of life as has been wrought out by man. He is at one with George Eliot, when she says: " There is in man a higher than love of happiness: he...without happiness and instead thereof find blessedness." He is sounding the same note with Carlyle, who says: "It is not to taste things but to do noble and... | |
| 1890 - 516 páginas
...in its history of love, made necessary by the aim to show that Carlyle is right when he says "Thep: is in man a Higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness and instead thereul find blessedness." The present volume lias been carefully revised to bring it into closer touch... | |
| Susan Coolidge - 1890 - 382 páginas
...Lord, thy sure relief ; Patient hearts their ptfin to see, And Thy grace, to follow Thee. JOHN KEBLE. THERE is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happiness, and in place thereof find blessedness. THOMAS CARLYLE. GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1891 - 244 páginas
...thou nothing other • than a Vulture, then, that fliest through the Universe seeking ' after somewhat to eat; and shrieking dolefully because carrion '...can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessed' ness ! Was it not to preach-forth this same HIGHER that sages 1 and martyrs, the Poet and... | |
| John Franklin Genung - 1891 - 384 páginas
...the desire for restored health and property or any earthly happiness never once comes to mention. " There is in man a Higher than Love of Happiness :...and instead thereof find Blessedness ! Was it not to preach forth this same Higher that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken... | |
| Sir Henry Jones - 1891 - 386 páginas
...other than a vulture, then," asks the former, " that fliest through the universe seeking after somewhat to eat, and shrieking dolefully because carrion enough...not given thee ? Close thy Byron, open thy Goethe." 1 Easter Day. " Huntsman Common Sense Came to the rescue, bade prompt thwack of thong dispense Quiet... | |
| Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1891 - 418 páginas
...like all other human powers. A high stage of progress is marked in Carlyle's saying: "There is in mau a higher than love of happiness. He can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness." Rights and Duties is a suggestive little manual by Mrs. KG Wells, and Mr. Smiles's Duty has an abundance... | |
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