 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
 | Edgar Truman Brackett - 1908 - 338 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,...taught mankind to engage; to how many the studies wnich took their rise from her have been wealth in poverty — Hberty in bondage — health in sickness... | |
 | Kelly Miller - 1909 - 320 pages
...literature possesses all of the qualities which Macaulay ascribes to the works of Athenian genius. It is " wealth in poverty, liberty in bondage, health in sickness, society in solitude." " It consoles sorrow and assuages pain and brings gladness to eyes which fall with wakefulness and... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1911 - 492 pages
...scaffold of Sidney. [Topic] 3. But who shall estimate her influence on private happiness ? 4. 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,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1911 - 488 pages
...been wealth in poverty, — liberty in bondage, — health in sickness, — society in solitude ? 5. Her power is indeed manifested at the bar, in the...the field of battle, in the schools of philosophy. 6. But these are not her glory. 7. Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain — wherever... | |
 | William Hall Chapman - 1912 - 204 pages
...reputation of the poet. But who shall estimate Robert Greene's influence on individual happiness? Who shall say how many thousands have been made wiser, happier, and better by a writer who held out a kind and friendly hand, and had a heart as true behind it? His statue would... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 168 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,...from her have been wealth in poverty —liberty in bondage—health in sickness—society in solitude? Her power is indeed manifested at the bar, in the... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 348 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,...from her have been wealth in poverty —liberty in bondage—health in sickness—society in solitude? Her power is indeed manifested at the bar, in the... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 344 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,...mankind to engage; to how many the studies which took then* rise from her have been wealth in poverty — liberty in bondage — health in sickness — society... | |
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