 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...beauty and strength of his sentiments, and exposes his whole soul to the examination of his friend. Tully was the first who observed, that friendship...grief ; a thought in which he hath been followed by aH the essayers upen friendship., that have written since his time. Sir Francis Bacon has finely describe,'... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1841 - 556 pages
...diminished. Nothing is so calculated to abate the ardour of youth as grief and disappointment ; ' Tally was the first who observed that friendship improves happiness and abates misery.* — ADDIBON. An evil maybe lessened when it cannot be removed by the application of remedies; He sought... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...beauty and strength of his sentiments, and exposes his whole soul to the examination of his friend. fe; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, "man is but a s miser)-, by the doubling of our joy, and dividing of our grief ; a thought in which he hath been followed... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1844 - 142 pages
...inordinate thirst for variety, which, whenever it prevails, is sure to leave very little true taste." — " Tully was the first who observed, that friendship...and dividing of our grief; — a thought in which he has been followed by all the essayers upon friendship that have written since his time." EXE RCISE... | |
 | My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 pages
...again relieved by mutual acts of kindness. This shows the value of friendship. As Cicero observes, "it improves happiness, and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy, and dividing our grief." And if this be the case with the friendship between two earthly friends, how much greater... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1846 - 548 pages
...и diminishedNothing is so calculated to abate \be ardour of youth as grief and disappointment ; ' Tully was the first who observed that friendship improves happiness and abates misery.1 — ADPISON. An evil may be lessened when it cannot be removed by the application of remedies... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1848 - 116 pages
...more than any other branch of human learning, prepares a person for acting his part properly in life. Tully was the first who observed, that friendship...the doubling of our joy, and dividing of our grief; in which he has been followed by all the essayists on friendship that have written since his time.... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 430 pages
...absent, as occasion serves, he is solicitous about our concerns. FRIENDSHIP improves happiness and alates misery, by the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief. — Cicero.. , ^ . >( . ,, . t ti . A gentle acceptance of courtesies is as necessary,, to • maintain... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...not every thing growing upon his own soil, and therefore is willing to barter with his neighbour. 8. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery,...the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief. — Cicero. 9. Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting a pair of bodies. — Aristotle.... | |
 | Maxims - 1852 - 242 pages
...find himself in a great mistake, that either seeks for a friend in a palace, or tries him at a feast. Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by...the doubling of our joy, and dividing of our grief. If you have not the indulgence to pardon your friends, nor they the same to pardon you, your friendship... | |
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Tully was the first who observed, that friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy, and dividing of our grief... 
