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" ... without any real desire for the ends which I had been so carefully fitted out to work for: no delight in virtue, or the general good, but also just as little in anything else. The fountains of vanity and ambition seemed to have dried up within me,... "
The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Study of the Growth of Religious ... - Page 212
by Edwin Diller Starbuck - 1900 - 423 pages
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The Evangelical repository. Vol. 1- new

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...
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Catholic World, Volume 18

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 115

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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 115

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...
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Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 1

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1874 - 516 pages
...sail; without any real desire for the ends which he had been so carefully fitted out to work for ; with no delight in virtue or the general good, but also just as little in anything else." After some months of this distressing melancholy, during which, though unconsciously to himself, time...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 55

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...
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Contributions to Natural History and Papers on Other Subjects

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...
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The New Englander, Volume 36

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...
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The Unitarian, Volume 4

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...
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A Short History of Political Economy in England: From Adam Smith to Arnold ...

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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