 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 pages
...command of each, was peculiarly adapted to his. genius; but both would have failed had these situations been reversed. He is happy, whose circumstances suit...excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances. What need is there to display the praises of INDUSTRY, and to extol its advantages, in the acquisition... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 626 pages
...command of each, was peculiarly adapted to his genius ; but both would have failed had these situations been reversed. He is happy whose circumstances suit...excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. What need is there to display the praises of INDUSTRY, and to extol its advantages, the acquisition... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...Thy God's, and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. Slutkapean. MCCXLIII. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but...excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances. — Hume. MCCXLIV. Suspicion overturns what confidence builds; And he that dares but doubt when there's... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...Thy God's, and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. Shakspeare. MCCXLIH. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but...is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.—Hume. MCCXLIV. Suspicion overturns what confidence builds; Is neither to himself nor... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...the immortal scars That may the sinner lave, The victory of him who came In beauty from the Grave. HE is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more excellent, who can suit nis temper to any circumstances.— Hume. From the Western Monthly Magazine. The Prize Tale. A NEW-ENOLAN6... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...generosity mistaken profusion. —Anon. 854. Circumstances.— He is happy whose circumstances suit hia temper ; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances . - - -Hume. 855. Reason.— There is a trite error which youth always falls into; they suppose that... | |
 | The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 pages
...pleasure. — Joy of heart, from whatever occasion it may arise, is the best of all nervous medicines. — He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ;...excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. — Unlimited leisure is apt to induce a listless indolence, which cherishes procrastination and subdues... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1844 - 676 pages
...( . H. I-. THE GAOL CHAPLAIN; OB, A DARK PAGE FROM LIFE'S VOLUME. CHAPTER XLVII. OFFENDED DIGNITY. He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ;...excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. — DAVID II i. MI;. WHENCE comes it that in so many minds autumn is associated with melancholy and... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1849 - 444 pages
...happened; and why, I had my suspicions : and go, probably, has the reader. CHAPTER XVI. OFFENDED DIGNITY. " He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper ;...excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances." — DAVID HUME. WHENCE comes it that in so many minds autumn is associated with melancholy and gloom... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...cottage. A trencher and a silver plato must be equally familiar. HE is hnppy whose circumstances sait his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. SOME people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. AUTHORS and lovers always suffer... | |
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He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper ; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances. 
