 | Adam Smith - 1817 - 776 pages
...naturally felt by the person principally concerned, and what the spectator can entirely go along with. What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience? To one in this situation all accessions of fortune... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1825 - 468 pages
...justly remarked by a profound observer of human nature, that " little can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience: yet this," he continues, " is the state of the greater part VOL. n. Y of mankind."* There is, in fact,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 pages
...naturally felt by the person principally concerned, and what the spectator can entirely go along with. What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience ? To one in this situation all accessions of fortune... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1856 - 484 pages
...signification, denotes our fellow-feeling with the sufferings, not with the enjoyments of others. What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience. This situation, however, may very well be called the... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1862 - 502 pages
...signification, denotes our fellow-feeling with the sufferings, not with the enjoyments of others. What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience. This situation, however, may very well be called the... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1869 - 364 pages
...are fundamental differences of view. II. — In the Psychology of Ethics, Smith would consider tho moral Faculty as identical with the power of Sympathy,...happiness.' But what he dwells upon most persistently, as tho prime condition of happiness, is Contentment, and Tranquillity. IV. — On the Moral Code, he has... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pages
...naturally felt by the person principally concerned, and what the spectator can entirely go along with. What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience ? To one in this situation, all accessions of fortune... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 496 pages
...in the belief, that there are twenty people happy for one in misery.4 ' What,' he characteristically asks, ' can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?'5 and this, he adds, is the actual condition of the... | |
 | 1877 - 1212 pages
...wonder most at the cheerful temperament or the complacent optimism of Adam Smith, when he asks, " What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?" When the greatest philosophers talk thus, what is... | |
 | James Anson Farrer - 1881 - 250 pages
...creed that happiness was equal in every lot, and that contentment alone was necessary to ensure it. " What," he asks, " can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience ? " To this simple standard, circumstances assisted... | |
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