 The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the active over the passive, and having as the foundation of...  The Irish Monthly - Стр. 5881906Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1861 - Страниц: 882
...them. The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture, but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various...having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortunate... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - Страниц: 120
...them. The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture ; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various...having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortunate... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - Страниц: 406
...them. The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture, but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various...having, as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortunate... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - Страниц: 108
...them. The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various...having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing. A life thus composed, to those who have been fortu-,... | |
 | 1879 - Страниц: 736
...them. The happiness which they meant was not a life of rapture ; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the actual over the passive, and having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than... | |
 | 1868 - Страниц: 598
...explains the happiness taught by Utilitarian philosophers as the aim of life, to be — "An existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various...having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than It is capable of bestowing." Both these definitions exact as a necessary condition,... | |
 | John Grote - 1870 - Страниц: 396
...philosophers) ' meant was ex P ect too ) not a life ot rapture, but moments of such, in an ex- life:' J istence made up of few and transitory pains, many and. various pleasures, with a decided predominance of the j active over the passive, and having as the foundation ( of the whole, not to expect more from life... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1872 - Страниц: 178
...prize the vanquished gain." — Longfellow. J. Stuart Mill defines a happy life to be " an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various...having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing." Mde. de Stael defines happy life to be, "Constant... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1872 - Страниц: 176
...prize the vanquished gain." — Longfellow. J. Stuart Mill defines a happy life to be "an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various...having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing." Mde. de Stael defines happy life to be, "Constant... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 616
...damaging admissions. i Happiness was " not a life of rapture ; but moments of such, in an existence made up of few and transitory pains, many and various...having as the foundation of the whole, not to expect more from life than it is capable of bestowing". Under the guise of an inquiry into the foundations... | |
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