 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 Seiten
...without supposing it to be broken. 5. The foundation of content must be laid in a man's own mind j and he who has so little knowledge of human nature,...as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply griefs which he purposes to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 Seiten
...trial, have been soon convinced, that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes... | |
 | Thomas NEALE (Rector of Tollerton and Sibstone.) - 1817 - 340 Seiten
...finployed in meditation and prayer. The fountain of content must always spring up in our own minds ; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness barely by change of situation, or truly, by any but rectifying his own disposition, wJJ| spend his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 374 Seiten
...trial, •have been soon convinced, that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and that he, who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happbness by changing any thing, but his own dispositions, will, waste his life in fruitless efforts,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 Seiten
...trial, have been soon convinced, that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life hi fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 Seiten
...trial, have been soon convinced, that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 Seiten
...trial, have been soon convinced, that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 Seiten
...have been soon convinced, that the foun- 1 tain of content must spring up in the mind ; and I v that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but hi? own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 Seiten
...trial, have been soon convinced, that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes... | |
 | 1840 - 520 Seiten
...duty to prove to youth, by example and argument, that the fountain of content is lodged in the soul; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness in anything but a change of his own gross habits, and an entire renovation of his depraved disposition,... | |
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He would, upon the trial, have been soon convinced, that the fountain of content must spring up in the mind ; and that he who has so little knowledge of human nature, as to seek happiness by changing any thing but his own dispositions, will waste his... 
