...rudder, but no sail ; 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, as completely as those of benevolence....

...the age of fifteen onwards, when he first read Bentham and helped to start the 'Westminster Eeview,' he had what might be called an object in life —...selfish nor unselfish pleasures were pleasures to mo ; and there seemed no power in nature sufficient to hegin the formation of my character anew, and...

...rudder, but no sail ; 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. ... I frequently asked myself if I could, or if I was bound to, go on living, when life must be passed...

...rudder, but no sail ; 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 been dried up within me as completely as those...

...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...

...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 up...

...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 just as little in anything else. The fountains of vanity and ambition were dried up. He had no love for music or nature, nothing but...

...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...

...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...

...ship, and a rudder, but no sail," no "real desire for the ends" he "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." After half a year of this feeling, a " small ray of light broke in upon" his "gloom." He was reading,...