 | John Todd - 1799 - 200 pagine
...half executed. Dr. Clarke said, " The old adage of ' Too many irons in the fire," is a great mistake. You cannot have too many; poker, tongs, and all; keep them all going." This habit of keeping the mind employed, will soon destroy the common habit of reverie. The mind will... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 pagine
...D'Oyly, in 1816, " I senectute, for I knock up sometimes with my duty at Harlton. Yet I have lived to know that the great secret of human happiness is...; poker, tongs, and all — keep them all going." Nor was it in truth so much the number and variety of his employments that broke down his health, as... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pagine
...the last he was unwilling to decline any fresh imposition of labour. " I have lived," he writes to i friend, "to know that the great secret of human happiness...many; poker, tongs, and all — keep them all going." In 1820 his complaint assumed a more dangerous character, and he was obliged to consult Dr. Baillie.... | |
 | 1827 - 616 pagine
...her reason entire to the last. Activity.— "I have lived," said the indefatigable Dr. ED Clarke, " to know, that the great secret of human happiness...abominable lie. You cannot have too many ; poker, tonge, a*" -" keep them all going." ffl Monument to rrnnkii*.— On the 15th of June the Aral stone... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 pagine
...another eminent individual of indefatigahle application, the late Dr. RD Clarke, who said, "I have lived to know that the great secret of human happiness is...many; poker, tongs, and all — keep them all going." Second Address to the Members of the Corporation of Surgeons of London, 1800. Song of Songs, or Sacred... | |
 | 1828 - 488 pagine
...he could return his visits, and dispense with his medicine. , " I HAVE lived," said Dr. ED Clarke, " to know that the great secret of human happiness is this : never suffer your enereies to stagnate.— The old adage of too many irons in the fire," conveys an abominable lie. You... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1829 - 348 pagine
...another eminent individual of indefatigable application, the late Dr. ED Clarke, who said, "I have lived to know that the great secret of human happiness is this : — Never tuifer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of ' Too many irons in lie fire,' conveys an abominable... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pagine
...their visits daring the night. jMrenturr.* an Columbia river. 1 1 have lived,' said Dr. ED Clark, ' to know that the great secret of human happiness is...suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of " loo many irons in the fire," conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many — pokers, tongs,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1834 - 480 pagine
...eminent individual of indefatigable application, the late Dr. ED Clarke, who said, " I have lived to know the great secret of human happiness is this, — never...; poker, tongs, and all — keep them all going." Hence we find him at one and the same time engaged in acquiring several distinct languages ; translating... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pagine
...passed from one pursuit to another. " I have lived to know," he says in a letter to Dr. D'Oyley, " thai the great secret of human happiness is this: — never...suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage," he adds, " of ' too many irons in the fire,' conveys an abominable He. You cannot have too many ; poker,... | |
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I have lived," said Dr. Adam Clarke, " long enough to know that the great secret of human happiness is this : never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of " too many irons in the fire, 
