 I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere: "there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness: he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest,...  The United States Democratic Review - Page 1471848Full view - About this book
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Proverbs - 1889 - 362 pages
...ancient saint, Thomas a Kempis ; and we may compare with it the saying of a modern sage, Thomas Carlyle, "There is in man a higher than love of happiness ;...happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness." Divine knowledge is not as the light of the moon, to sleep by ; but as the light of the sun, to work... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...the natural flower of duty. 2335 Phillips Jirooks : Sermons, II. The Withheld Completions of Life. There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he...without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. 2330 C'arli/le : Sartor liesartus. The Everlastiiuj Yea. Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - Authors, English - 1889 - 692 pages
...which finds in happiness our " being's end and aim." The heart responds to Carlyle's stirring words : " There is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happiness, and in place thereof find blessedness! " Yet can we accept this sentiment as sufficient for human nature's... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - Authors, English - 1889 - 690 pages
...which finds in happiness our " being's end and aim." The heart responds to Carlyle's stirring words : " There is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happiness, and in place thereof find blessedness ! " Yet can we accept this sentiment as sufficient for human nature's... | |
 | William Sumner Appleton - Medalists - 1890 - 418 pages
...a serious man well may. Life means to him the service of truth and celestial obligation. He says: " There is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness :...the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered ; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1890 - 676 pages
...conception of life as has been wrought out by man. He is at one with George Eliot, when she says: " There is in man a higher than love of happiness: he...without happiness and instead thereof find blessedness." He is sounding the same note with Carlyle, who says: "It is not to taste things but to do noble and... | |
 | Universalism - 1890 - 540 pages
...better than they ; and the general lesson which it conveys, as put in the words of Thomas Carlyle : " There is in man a Higher than love of happiness ;...happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness," is undoubtedly true and important ; but is taught in this instance at least, needlessly, as it seems... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - Calendars - 1890 - 382 pages
...Lord, thy sure relief ; Patient hearts their ptfin to see, And Thy grace, to follow Thee. JOHN KEBLE. THERE is in man a higher than love of happiness ; he can do without happiness, and in place thereof find blessedness. THOMAS CARLYLE. GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help... | |
 | 1890 - 516 pages
...in its history of love, made necessary by the aim to show that Carlyle is right when he says "Thep: is in man a Higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness and instead thereul find blessedness." The present volume lias been carefully revised to bring it into closer touch... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - Bible - 1891 - 384 pages
...the desire for restored health and property or any earthly happiness never once comes to mention. " There is in man a Higher than Love of Happiness :...the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered ; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the... | |
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