| 1874 - 332 pages
...voyage, with a well-equipped ship and a rudder, but no sail ; without any real desire for the ends which I had been so carefully fitted out to work for...The fountains of vanity and ambition seemed to have been dried up within me as completely as those of benevolence" (p. 139). His feeling of vanity and... | |
| 1874 - 900 pages
...voyage, with a well-equipped ship and a rudder, but no sail ; without any real desire for the ends which I had been so carefully fitted out to work for...general good, but also just as little in anything else. ... I frequently asked myself if I could, or if I was bound to, go on living, when life must be passed... | |
| 1874 - 804 pages
...its dissolving influence. He felt that he had no real desire for the ends which he had been trained to work for ; " no delight in virtue or the general good, but also just as little in anything else." As for vanity, ambition, the desire of distinction and importance, satiety had preceded desire. A morbid... | |
| 1874 - 802 pages
...its dissolving influence. He felt that he had no real desire for the ends which he had been trained to work for; "no delight in virtue, or the general good, but also just as little in anything else." As for vanity, ambition, the desire of distinction and importance, satiety had preceded desire. A morbid... | |
| 1875 - 558 pages
...of thought " by his father. It was this which he believed had led him to that state in which he had no delight in virtue or the general good, but also...anything else. The fountains of vanity and ambition were dried up. He had no love for music or nature, nothing but a dry, heavy dejection. He thought the... | |
| James Simson - 1875 - 222 pages
...been so carefully fitted out to work for [for which everyone was apparently to blame but himself] : no delight in virtue or the general good, but also just as little in anything else [as if he had been ' a stock or a stone ']. The fountains of vanity and ambition seemed to have dried... | |
| 1877 - 824 pages
...beginning of his voyage," without any real desire for the ends which he had been so carefully fitted to work for; " no delight in virtue or the general good, but also just as little in anything else." Having ascertained the nature of the evil it remained to apply the remedy, which he found in a theory... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...and a rudder, but no sail; without any real desire for the ends which I had been so carefully fitted to work for; no delight in virtue, or the general good, but also just as little in anything else." Mill gives a vivid picture of the wretchedness and the hopelessness of his life at the period when... | |
| Langford Lovell Price - 1891 - 226 pages
..."his "voyage, with a well-equipped ship, and a rudder, but no sail," no "real desire for the ends" he "had been so carefully fitted out to work for, no...general good, but also just as little in anything else." After half a year of this feeling, a " small ray of light broke in upon" his "gloom." He was reading,... | |
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