 ... 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 has met with from...  The Guide to Knowledge - Page 217edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 872 pages
...he despises ... it is [only] in the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases . . . that he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness...frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind, than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys [pp. 260-61]. In another... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 448 pages
...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...frivolous 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... | |
 | Robin Paul Malloy, Jerry Evensky - 1994 - 250 pages
...maximization was not his primary focus. He observed for instance that even the most ambitions of people: find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of...frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquility of mind, thin the rweezer-cases of the lover of toys; and like them, too, more... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 664 pages
...whom Heaven in its anger has visited with ambition" finds, after a lifetime of "unrelenting industry" that "wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring case of body or tranquility of mind, than the tweczer-cases of the lover of toys: and. like them too.... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1995 - 292 pages
...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...greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility. . . . Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose [elaborate] machines... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - 1996 - 376 pages
...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...frivolous 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... | |
 | Ronald Terchek - 1997 - 306 pages
...insecurity and anxiety. 71 Like the poor man's son who rises too high, too quickly, they find their "wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquility of mind, than the Tweezer-cases of the lover of toys." 72 When vanity is coupled... | |
 | Charles L. Griswold - 1999 - 430 pages
...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...frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys" (IV. 1.8). Then he sees the... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - 2000 - 164 pages
...mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments which he imagined he has met with from the injustice of his enemies,...frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity of mind than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys. (TMS: 181) We now show that... | |
 | Regenia Gagnier - 2000 - 268 pages
...diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments that he imagines he has met with from the injustice of his enemies or the perfidy and ingratitude of his friends, he will find that wealth and greatness are no more adapted... | |
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