 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 594 páginas
...respect preferable to that humble security and contentment, which he had abandoned for it. It is (//«», in the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil...utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind, than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys ; and like them too, more troublesome... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1824 - 514 páginas
...artificial and elegant repose, which he may never arrive at; for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity, that is at all times in his power, and which, —...utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind, than the tweezercases of the lover of toys ; and like them too, more troublesome... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 páginas
...artificial and elegant repose, which he may never arrive at ; for which he saorifices a real tranquillity, that is at all times in his power, and which, —...utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind, than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys; and like them too, more troublesome... | |
 | Thomas Brown, Levi Hedge - 1827 - 400 páginas
...artificial and elegant repose, which lie may never arrive at ; for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity, that is at all times in his power, and which, —...greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility, ill adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind." * All the works of human industry... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1836 - 734 páginas
...dregs of life, his tody wasted .with toil and diseases, his mind guilt d and rufíltd by the memory oí ¿thousand injuries and disappointments which he imagines...frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease, of jBody, or tranquillity of mind, tliHH the tweezcr-cases of the lover of toys ; and like tl.em, too,... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 584 páginas
...artificial and elegant repose, which he may never arrive at ; for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity, that is at all times in his power, and which, if in...utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind, than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys ; and like them, too, more troublesome... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1851 - 834 páginas
...of his enemies, or from the perfidy ami ingratitude of his friends, that he begins at last to rind that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease ut body or tranquillity of mind, than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys ; and like them, too,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 páginas
...artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity that is at all times in his power, and which, if in...utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind, than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys; and like them, too, more troublesome... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - 1853 - 622 páginas
...from the injustice of his enemies, or from the perfidy and ingratitude of his friends, that he hegins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere...utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind, than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys; and like them, too, more troublesome... | |
 | Stephen Franks Miller - 1858 - 488 páginas
...artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquillity that is at all times in his power, and which, if in...wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous * Adam Smith, — Theory of Moral Sentiments, vol. ip 244. utility, no more adapted for procuring ease... | |
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... humble security and contentment which he had abandoned for it. It is then, in the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments which he imagines he... 
