 | 1813 - 594 pages
...facility, than to be able to look back on a life nei-fiil and virtuously employed — to trace our progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...virtue; and, lastly, that it is most conducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a- life usefully and virtuously employed ; ta trace our own" progress in existence, by such tokens as exeite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1817 - 374 pages
...greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously emVOL. xix. x ployed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens...which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish <me day from another, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been, except that he is conscious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 472 pages
...Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r, But what hat been has been, and I have had my hour. . PKYJltK There is certainly no greater happiness than to be...able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously 268 THE RAMBLER. No. 41. employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 468 pages
...Heav'n itself upon the past has liow'r, .But what has been has been, and I have had my hour. DKYDEK. There is certainly no greater • happiness than to...able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously 268 THE RAMBLER. No. 41. employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...virtue ; and, lastly, that it is mostconducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...; and, lastly, that it is most conducive to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and...by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...is most conducive to our happiness. look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to (race our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. It ought therefore to be the care of those who wish to pass the last hours with comfort, to lay up... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...invites them to reposc,but to slumber upon it is death. There is certainly no greater felirify.'han to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously...trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as exrite neither shame nor sorrow. It mishf, therefore, to be the care of tivise who wish to pass the... | |
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... to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. 
