 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 318 σελίδες
...philosophically true ; but would be very ill received. We have all our playthings ; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain :...wisest manner, that can easiest shade the ills of lite, and are the least productive of ill consequences. I think my time better employed in reading... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1813 - 326 σελίδες
...be philosophically true, but would be very ill received. We have all our playthings; happy are they that can be contented •with those they can obtain...contriving schemes of plaguing some, and extracting praise from others to no purpose ; eternally disappointed, and eternally fretting. The active scenes... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 332 σελίδες
...be philosophically true^ but would be very ill received. We have all our playthings; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain :...contriving schemes of plaguing some, and extracting praise from others to no purpose ; eternally disappointed, and eternally fretting. The active scenes... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 330 σελίδες
...be philosophically true, but would be very ill received. We have all ouv playthings ; happy are they that can be contented •with those they can obtain...people, than the Duchess of Marlborough, who passed tlie latter years of her life hi paddling with her will, and contriving schemes of plaguing some, and... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - 434 σελίδες
...be philosophically true, bat would be very ill received. We have all our playthings ; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain :...contriving schemes of plaguing some, and extracting praise from others to no purpose; eternally disappointed, and eternally fretting. The active scenes... | |
 | 1821 - 346 σελίδες
...philosophically true, but would be very ill received. We have all our •playthings ; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain :...contriving schemes of plaguing some, and extracting praise from others, to no purpose ; eternally disappointed, and eternally fretting. The active scenes... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 386 σελίδες
...be philosophically true, but would be very ill received. We have all our playthings ; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain :...contriving schemes of plaguing some, and extracting praise from others, to no purpose; eternally disappointed, and eternally fretting. The active scenes... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 454 σελίδες
...be philosophically true, but would be very ill received. We have all our playthings; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain :...wisest manner, that can easiest shade the ills of life, T2 and are the least productive of ill consequences. I think my time better employed in reading the... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 460 σελίδες
...be philosophically true, but would be very ill received. We have all our playthings ; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain :...wisest manner, that can easiest shade the ills of Lite , T2 and are the least productive of ill consequences. I think my time better employed in reading... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - 1845 - 126 σελίδες
...wisest manner that ean easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least produetive of ill eonsequenees. I think my time better employed in reading the adventures of imaginary people, than the Duehess of Marlborough who passed the latter years of her life in eontriving sehemes of plaguing some,... | |
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... strings, this may be philosophically true^ but would be very ill received. We have all our playthings; happy are they that can be contented with those they can obtain : those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of... 
