 | Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...THE MOUNTAIN OF MISERIES. JO8F.PI1 ADDI80X. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all tho misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among tho whole species, those who BOW think themselves tho most unhappy, would prefer the share they arc... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1883 - 708 pages
...bliss: Don't you believe they'd run ? Not one will move, Tho' proffer'd to be happy from above. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further in the motto of my paper, which implies that tho hardships or misfortunes we lie under, are more easy... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 pages
...Don't you believe they'd run ? Not one will move, Though proffered to be happy from above." 1. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further in the motto of my paper, which implies that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under, are more easy... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - Calendars - 1884 - 396 pages
...fire-fly, whose happy convolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. Arthur Helps. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...that which would fall to them by such a division. Addison. So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times? We may make these times better, if... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it. ENDEAVOURS OF MANKIND TO GET RID OF THEIR BURDENS. It is all: so snould I purchase so deep. dear 70 Short...delight, 75 Mankind, created, and for him this world. he says that the hardships or misfortunes which we lie under, are j more easy to us than those of any... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - American prose literature - 1886 - 456 pages
...TO THE MEMORY OF THE GOOD OLD-FASHIONED GRANDMOTHER. GOD RLESS HER FOREVER. • Our Burdens. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further: he says that the hardships or misfortunes which we lie under, are more easy to us than those of any... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 pages
...sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it." ENDEAVORS OF MANKIND TO GET RID OP THEIR BURDENS. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further ; he says that the hardships or misfortunes which we lie under are more easy to us than those of any... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...And fondly dream each wind and star our friend. 349 THE MOUNTAIN OF MISERIES. JOSEl'II ADDISON. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further, and implies that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under are more easy to us than those of any other... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 364 pages
...well as to be pleased in itself. Spectator No. 558. The folly of discontent with one's own lot. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...division. Horace has carried this thought a great deal farther in his first satire, which implies that the hardships and misfortunes we lie under are more... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 504 pages
...calm death — an immense Came, and affection afterwards for his happy and spotless name." 1] It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further, and implies that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under are more easy to us than those of any other... | |
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IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are... 
