But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier, and better, by those pursuits in which she has taught mankind to engage ? — to how many the studies which took their rise from... The North American Review - Page 391887Full view - About this book
| Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 pages
...on the scaffold of Sidney. 3. But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier,...in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude ? 4. Her power is indeed manifested at the bar, in the senate, in the field of battle, in the schools... | |
| Gyula Schvarcz - 1884 - 852 pages
...been made wiser, happier and bei' er by Ihose pursuits in which she has laugut mankind to engage ; lo how many the studies which took their rise from her have been wealth in poverly, — liberly in bondage, — heallh in sickness, — society in solitude ? Her power is indeed... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 pages
...on the scaffold of Sidney. 3. But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness ? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier,...rise from her have been wealth in poverty, liberty iu bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude. Her power is, indeed, manifested at the bar, in... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1888 - 658 pages
...scaffold of Sidney. But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness ? Who shall say how nunv thousands have been made wiser, happier, and better...which took their rise from her have been wealth in povertv, liberty in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude ? Her power is, indeed, manifested... | |
| William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 pages
...Galileo ; on the scaffold of Sidney. But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier,...pursuits in which she has taught mankind to engage ; how many studies which took their rise from her have been wealth in poverty,— liberty in bondage,—... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1890 - 402 pages
...; on the scaffold of Sidney. But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness ? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier,...taught mankind to engage ; to how many the studies that took their rise from her have been wealth in poverty, — liberty in bondage, — health in sickness,... | |
| 1890 - 270 pages
...words with which he concludes his review of Mitford's " Greece " : " Who shall say how many thousand have been made wiser, happier, and better by those pursuits in which she (Athens) has taught mankind to engage; to how many the studies which took their rise from her have... | |
| Julius Schvarcz - 1891 - 816 pages
...how many thousands have been made wiser, happier and bei er by those pursuits in which she has taugbt mankind to engage; to how many the studies which took...manifested at the bar, in the senate, in the field of baltle, in the schools of philosophy. But these are not her glory. Wherever lilerature consoles sorrow... | |
| George Champlin Mason - 1891 - 588 pages
...individual who does not regard a public library as a public ornament, who does not acknowledge books to be ' wealth in poverty, liberty in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude.' By a strange inconsistency in human nature, it is not rare, however, to find an individual who fails... | |
| John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 898 pages
...intellectual advancement of the human race ; we believe that no book has been to so many and so abundantly wealth in poverty, liberty in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude; and as a divinely inspired work, such as the testimony of the Jewish nation for the greater part of... | |
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