| 1874 - Broj stranica: 596
...educational precept. His inculcations of this virtue till a large place in my childish remembrances. He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This was a topic on which he did not often speak, especially,... | |
| 1874 - Broj stranica: 804
...with him a by-word of scornful disapprobation." He was severe, autoeratic, and morhidly logical. " He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by." He executed the task of educating his children, as a task, with... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1874 - Broj stranica: 524
...bent on reforming the world. One is not surprised to learn -that the father had little joy in life. He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This was a topic on which he did not often speak, especially,... | |
| 1874 - Broj stranica: 616
...;' the darkness, not of intellect, but of despair, and as one lying under the shadow oi Ahriman. ' He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by ' — the noble and enduring interest in physical, historical,... | |
| James Baldwin Brown - 1874 - Broj stranica: 448
...rejected " all that is called religious belief." It does not surprise one to learn further, that " he thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by." I fear that there is a large class of cultivated men and women... | |
| 1874 - Broj stranica: 606
...the darkness, not of intellect, but of despair, and as one lying under the shadow of A In i ma n. ' He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by ' — the noble and enduring interest in physical, historical,... | |
| 1874 - Broj stranica: 618
...;' the darkness, not of intellect, but of despair, and as one lying under the shadow of Ahriman. ' He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by ' — the noble and enduring interest in physical, historical,... | |
| 1874 - Broj stranica: 900
...pleasure, at least in his later years, of which alone, on this point, I can speak confidently. . . . He thought human life a poor thing at best after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. . . . He would sometimes say that if life were made what it might... | |
| 1874 - Broj stranica: 802
...pleasure, but he attributed the greater number of the miscarriages in life to the overvaluing of pleasure. He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. For passionate emotions of all sorts he professed the greatest... | |
| James McCosh - 1875 - Broj stranica: 506
...was left without any relief from the dark prospect. We do not wonder in these circumstances that " he thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by." He was thoroughly discontented with the education commonly given... | |
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