 ... 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
 | Caroline Gerschlager - 2001 - 280 pages
...and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments.. .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'* With this example Smith... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - 2003 - 458 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 tranquility of mind than the tweezer-cases of the lover of toys." Output per HourConfucius... | |
 | Andres Marroquin - 2002 - 165 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." Intimations of Thoreau I cannot read the above passages without thinking of Henry David Thoreau, whom... | |
 | Derek Bok - 2002 - 360 pages
...much anyway, as riches do not bring real happiness to those who receive them. In Adam Smith's words, "Wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of 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... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2004 - 260 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... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 454 pages
...dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind gauled 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... | |
 | Margaret Schabas - 2009 - 208 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" (Smith 1790/1976, 181). What really matters, "ease of body, or tranquillity of mind," is as elusive... | |
 | Svetozar Minkov, Stéphane Douard - 2006 - 416 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...ingratitude of his friends, that he begins at last to find thai wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease... | |
 | David Clark - 2006 - 757 pages
...happiness: 'How many people ruin themselves by laying out money on trinkets of frivolous utility . . . [W]ealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility, no more adapted for procuring ease of body or tranquillity [sic] of mind than the tweezer-cases of the lovers of toys' (ibid., pp. 180-81).... | |
 | Svetozar Minkov, Stéphane Douard - 2007 - 416 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, 181) This is a... | |
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