 Though the pleasures and advantages of friendship have been largely celebrated by the best moral writers, and are considered by all as great ingredients of human happiness, we very rarely meet with the practice of this virtue in the world.  The Argosy - Page 203edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 pages
...together without any set form, that I may avoid repeating what has been often said on this subject. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Though the pleasures and advantages of friendship have been largely celebrated by the... | |
 | G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...dit tant de fois sur ce sujet. i. « may avoid repeating what has been often said on this subject. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Though the pleasures and advantages of friendship bave been largely celebrated by the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 pages
...together without any set form, that I may avoid repeating what has been often said on this subject. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Though the pleasures and advantages of friendship have been largely celebrated by the... | |
 | 1824 - 348 pages
...never to go out of that which is the agreeable part of our character. SPECTATOR, Vol. I. No. 68. 21. " Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another." Though the pleasures and advantages of friendship have been largely celebrated by the... | |
 | 1824 - 268 pages
...together without any set form, that I may avoid repeating what has been often said on this subject. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Though the pleasures arid advantages of friendship have been largely celebrated by the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...the House of Commons, to be burned by (he common hangman —Ax- BwgrapMa BnUamka, vol. iii. p. 1974. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Though the pleasures and advantages of friendship have been largely celebrated by the... | |
 | Female excellence - 1838 - 240 pages
...fatherless findeth mercy." Hos. xiv. 3. Early Friendships. — " Friendship," it has been justly observed, " is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Friendship is composed of love and esteem ; where either of these is wanting, it cannot... | |
 | My youthful companions - 1846 - 170 pages
...often true friendship exhibited among the men of the world. They may be companions, but not friends. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. But such true friendship is rare : how often does the man who has declared to his friend... | |
 | 1861 - 214 pages
...advice, fully relyiDic on some means by which it may release us from the troubles of the woria.-J. HOL FRIENDSHIP is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiueos of each other,— Addisun. REAL FRIENDSHIP. MUCH beautiful, and excellent, and fair Was seen... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...sacred when beheld through the shades of the sepulchre. Robert Ba'.l. FRIENDSHIP— Definition of. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the pood FRIENDSHIP. FRIENDSHIP. of. Friendship is power and riches all to me ; Friendship 's another element... | |
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