 The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnsonпо Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 323 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1990 - 392 страници
...moral. On the contrary, it had a better one than Boileau's mock-epic on the French clergy, he said: The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.2 The Rape of the Lock, for all its fantasy, is firmly rooted in the world of "small vexations... | |
 | Louis Le Baut - 1959 - 358 страници
...if they had both succeeded, it were easy to tell who would have deserved most from public gratitude. The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity of...fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the hap65 piness of life in a year than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries. It has been well... | |
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...swept the ridge. The great moralist, whom I have frequently had occasion to quote, remarks very justly that 'the misery of man proceeds not from any single...evil, but from small vexations continually repeated'. The drips inside the tent were the small vexations which by constant repetition occasioned our misery.... | |
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