 As we would wish our friends to behave towards us."' — Diogenes Laertius. Chapter XIII LIFE COMPANIONSHIP "Whenever we step out of domestic life in search of felicity, we come back again disappointed, tired, and chagrined. One day passed under our own...  Letters from Italy in the Years 1754 and 1755 - Page xxiiby John Boyle Earl of Orrery - 1773 - 267 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Boyle Earl of Orrery - Italy - 1773 - 328 pages
...have been fuperfluous. His lordfhip redded in Ireland, with little intermiffion, till the year 1 750, happy in that domeftic tranquillity, " that" ftudious...called, " the diverfions of life, are defpicable " and taftelefs when we have once exf His lordfhip's own words in a manufcript letter. * Effay on the life... | |
 | John Boyle Earl of Orrery - Italy - 1774 - 324 pages
...life in fearch of felicity, we " come back again difappo<nted, tired, *' and chagrined. One day pafied under " our own roof, with our friends and '.* our...buf*' tie, or, as they are foolifhly called, " the divcrfions of life, are defpicable " and taftelefs when we have once ex^ f His lordfhip's own words... | |
 | 1780 - 498 pages
...life in fearch of felicity, we come back again, difappointed, tired, and chagrined. One day pafTed under our own roof, with our friends and our family,...worth a thoufand in any other place. The noife and buftle, or, as they are foolifhly called, the divcrfions of life, are defpicable and taftelefs when... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 560 pages
...from which he was never .drawn but with reludance. " Whenever," fays he, " we ftep out of domeftic life in fearch of felicity, we come back again difappointed,...worth a thoufand :in any other place. The noife and buftle, or (as they are fooliflily called) the diverfions of life, are defpicable and taftelefs, when... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1698 - 830 pages
...chagrined. One day palTed under our own roof is worth a thoufand in any other place. The noife and buftle, or, as they are foolifhly called, the diverfions of...life, are defpicable and tafteleis, when we have once experienced the real delights of a fire- fide.' As the public have diftinguifhed with their approbation... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1799 - 456 pages
...1; ic in search of felicity, we come back again disappointed, tired, and chagrined. One day passed under our own roof, with our friends and our family, is worth a thousand in another place. The noise and bustle, or (as they are foolishly called) the diversions of... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 478 pages
...domestic life in search of felicity, we come back again disappointed, tired, and chagrined. One day passed under our own roof with our friends and our family, is worth a thousand in any other place. The noise and bustle, or, as they are foolishly called, the diversions... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 534 pages
...domestic iife in search of felicity, we come back again disappointed, tired, and chagrined. One day passed under our own roof, with our friends and our family, is worth a thousand in any other place. The noise and bustle, or, as they are foolishly called, the diversions... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 544 pages
...life in search of felicity, we come back again disappointed, tired, and chagrined. One day passed • under our own roof, with our friends and our family, is worth a thousand in any other place. The noise and bustle, or, as they are foolishly called, the diversions... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 440 pages
...life, in search of felicity, we come back again disappointed, tired, and chagrined* One day passed under our own roof, with our friends and our family, is worth a thousand in another place." EARL OF ORRERY. SLAVERY OF MOTHERS IN THE EARLY AGES: IN the early ages... | |
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