 | 1910 - 608 Seiten
...much practice. (3) To believe in the heroic makes heroes. (4) To endure is greater than to dare. (5) To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. (6) To work hard tires one. (7) To labor is the natural lot of man. (8) To err is human. (9) To forgive... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 140 Seiten
...which he feels in privacy to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - 1911 - 232 Seiten
...of general nature ' ; ' of men as of everything else we must judge according to our knowledge ' ; ' to be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition ' ; ' the sun has risen and the corn has grown, and whatever talk has been of the danger of property, yet he... | |
 | 1914 - 128 Seiten
...where angels find a resting place When, bearing blessings, they descend to earth. Rare Ben Jonson said that — To be happy at home is the ultimate result...ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labor tend, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Such happiness my friend enjoyed. His home... | |
 | Janet McKenzie Hill - 1914 - 872 Seiten
...and at door Knocks the wild winter storm. Essentials of Happy Homemaking By Eleanor Robbins Wilson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. — JOHNSON. WHO ever saw a newly-married... | |
 | Elizabeth Crocker Jenkins - 1915 - 186 Seiten
...the art of entertaining their families. Just now there is an archaic flavor to Dr. Johnson's words; "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all...ambition - the end to which every enterprise and labor tend." Here the well-to-do and educated classes must lead the way. A love of simple, wholesome pleasure,... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 Seiten
...domestic felicity, full of a quiet charm. When Dr Johnson wrote in The Rambler for loth November 1750, "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution," he was obviously, as often, expressing... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 Seiten
...humankind, and makes every man, without distinction, a denizen of his bosom." l Domestic Happiness. — " To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution." 2 The Highest Panegyrick. — " The... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 Seiten
...the American quarrel. Yet to Johnson private things were always more important than public things. " To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." Even of Fox he said, " I am for the King against Fox ; but I am for Fox against Pitt " ; and explained... | |
 | 1924 - 970 Seiten
...on habit.' ' Never speak of a man in his presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive.' ' To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.' Johnson was subject to fits of hypochondria, and there was a strong vein of pathos in his talk. Boswell... | |
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. 
