| David Hume - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...was peculiarly adapted to his. genius; but both would have failed had these situations been reversed. He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper ;...excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances. What need is there to display the praises of INDUSTRY, and to extol its advantages, in the acquisition... | |
| HURST, ROBINSON, AND COMPANY, - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...peculiarly * adapted to his genius; but both would have failed had these situa' tiong been reversed. He is happy, whose circumstances suit his < temper;...excellent who can suit his temper to any 'circumstances.' (Hume's Essays, vol. II. p. 284-5.) This versa tility of temper and genius belongs not to individuals,... | |
| 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...would have failed had these situa' tions been reversed. He is happy, whose circumstances suit his i temper ; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any « circumstances.' (Humes Essays, vol. II. p. 284—5.) This versatility of temper and genius belongs not to individuals,... | |
| David Hume - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...was peculiarly adapted to his genius ; but both would have failed had these situations been reversed. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ;...excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. What need is there to display the praises of INDUSTRY, and to extol its advantages, the acquisition... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...Thy God's, and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. Slutkapean. MCCXLIII. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but...excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances. — Hume. MCCXLIV. Suspicion overturns what confidence builds; And he that dares but doubt when there's... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...Thy God's, and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. Shakspeare. MCCXLIH. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but...is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.—Hume. MCCXLIV. Suspicion overturns what confidence builds; Is neither to himself nor... | |
| 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...the immortal scars That may the sinner lave, The victory of him who came In beauty from the Grave. HE is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more excellent, who can suit nis temper to any circumstances.— Hume. From the Western Monthly Magazine. The Prize Tale. A NEW-ENOLAN6... | |
| 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...generosity mistaken profusion. —Anon. 854. Circumstances.— He is happy whose circumstances suit hia temper ; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances . - - -Hume. 855. Reason.— There is a trite error which youth always falls into; they suppose that... | |
| The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...pleasure. — Joy of heart, from whatever occasion it may arise, is the best of all nervous medicines. — He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ;...excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. — Unlimited leisure is apt to induce a listless indolence, which cherishes procrastination and subdues... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...( . H. I-. THE GAOL CHAPLAIN; OB, A DARK PAGE FROM LIFE'S VOLUME. CHAPTER XLVII. OFFENDED DIGNITY. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ;...excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. — DAVID II i. MI;. WHENCE comes it that in so many minds autumn is associated with melancholy and... | |
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