 | Sir John Sinclair - Hygiene - 1807 - 594 pages
...wounding, is a kind of joy, and is subject to the same laws which we have set down touching joy. "0. Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections,...of good; therefore, they which fix and propound to thetniclws some end, as the mark and scope of their life, and continually, and by degrees, go forward... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...that shamefaced persons commonly live long; but shame for some great ignominy, and which afllicteth s!X#Y# long-lived ; insomuch that when they are come to the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...89. Love, if it be not unfortunate, and too deeply wounding, is a kind of joy, and is subject to llie same laws which we have set down touching joy. 90....degrees go forward in the same, are, for the most part, long-lived ; insomuch that when they are come to the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 614 pages
...ourselves, is good ; but pity, •which may reflect with some similitude upon the party pitying, is naught, because it exciteth fear. 88. Light shame hurteth...degrees go forward in the same, are, for the most part, long-lived ; insomuch that when they are come to the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1844 - 614 pages
...some similitude upon the party pitying, is naught, because it exciteth fear. 88. Light shame huiteth not, seeing it contracteth the spirits a little, and...degrees go forward in the same, are, for the most part, long-lived ; insomuch that when they are come to the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein,... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...Master Hobbes — earth to earth, eh ? Of all the affections, hope is the most beneficial, and doth most to the prolongation of life, if * it be not too often...entertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good ; those that soon come to the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein, commonly droop, and... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...sufficient strong stomachs, it will be best to take a good draught of clear cold water when they go to bed. Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections,...degrees go forward in the same, are, for the most part, longlived ; insomuch, that when they are come to the top of their hope and can go no higher therein,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...sufficient strong stomachs, it will be best to take a good draught of clear cold water when they go to bed. Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections,...prolongation of life, if it be not too often frustrated, but entertaiueth the fancy with an expectation of good. Therefore, they which fix and propound to themselves... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...he hest to take a good draught of clear cold water when they go to hed. Hope is the most heneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life, if it he not too often frustrated, hut entertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good. Therefore, they... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...Master Hobbes — earth to earth, eh ? Of all the affections, hope is the most beneficial, and doth most to the prolongation of life, if it be not too often...entertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good ; those that soon come to the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein, commonly droop, and... | |
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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life, if it be not too often frustrated, but entertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good ; therefore they which fix and propound to themselves some end, as... 
