THUS I THINK It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery. Happiness consists in what delights and contents the mind, misery in what disturbs, discomposes, or torments it. I will therefore make it my business to seek satisfaction and... The Philadelphia Visitor - 92. oldal1840Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Lord Peter King King - 1829 - 426 oldal
...the commonwealth, (within which his power is confined,) without any regard to excommunication at all. THUS I THINK It is a man's proper business to seek...satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness, and disquiet; to have as much of the one and as little of the other as may be. But here I must have a care I mistake... | |
| 1832 - 406 oldal
...value." THUS I THINK. [From I.uokc'., Miscellaneous Papers, published u> his Lif« bjr Lord Kiog.] IT is a man's proper business to seek happiness and...satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness and disquiet; to have as much of the one and as little of the other as may be. But here 1 must have a care I mistake... | |
| 1833 - 426 oldal
...Discipline.] Thus I Think. [From Locke's Miscellaneous Papers, published in his Life by Lord King.] It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery. Happiness consista in what delights and contents the mind ; misery in what disturbs, discomposes, or tor. mente... | |
| 1832 - 858 oldal
...Elizabeth his wife. THUS'I THINK. From Locke's Miscellaneous papers, published In his life by Lord ftng. IT is a man's proper business to seek happiness and...satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness and disquiet ; to have as much of the one and as little of the other as may be. But here I must have a care I mistake... | |
| David George Goyder - 1840 - 272 oldal
...waters, I shall transcribe for your use the following confession of belief, which Locke entitles.] 1. THUS i THINK. — It is a man's proper business to...satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness and disquiet ; to have as much of the one, and as little of the other as may be — But here I must take care I... | |
| 1841 - 478 oldal
...transient kind ; it would be a hard task to define its limits or circumscribe its boundaries. Locke says, " It is a man's proper business to seek happiness, and avoid misery ; but if I prefer a short pleasure to a lasting one, it is plain I cross my own happiness." Johnson... | |
| William Chambers - 1858 - 378 oldal
...of a great man, on matters of daily concern, we present this confession of Locke, which he entitles, Thus I Think. 'It is a man's proper business to seek...satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness and disquiet ; to have as much of the one, and as little of the other, as may be. But here I must have a care I... | |
| Peter King (7th baron.) - 1858 - 532 oldal
...the commonwealth (within which his power is confined), without any regard to excommunication at all. THUS I THINK It is a man's proper business to seek...satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness and disquiet ; to have as much of the one, and as little of the other, as may be. But here I must have a care I... | |
| Lord Peter King King - 1864 - 536 oldal
...the commonwealth (within which his power is confined), without any regard to excommunication at all. THUS I THINK It is a man's proper business to seek...torments it. I will therefore make it my business to seek satisfactiou and delight, and avoid uneasiness and disquiet ; to have as much of the one, and as little... | |
| Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 516 oldal
...Thus, I think," we find him saying, with something like the emphasis of a philosophical Credo : — " Thus, I think; — It is a man's proper business to...satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness and disquiet; to have as much of the one, and as little of the other, as may be. But here I must have a care I mistake... | |
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