...educational precept. His inculcations of this virtue till a large place in my childish remembrances. He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This was a topic on which he did not often speak, especially,...

...with him a by-word of scornful disapprobation." He was severe, autoeratic, and morhidly logical. " He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by." He executed the task of educating his children, as a task, with...

...;' the darkness, not of intellect, but of despair, and as one lying under the shadow of Ahriman. ' He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by ' — the noble and enduring interest in physical, historical,...

...the darkness, not of intellect, but of despair, and as one lying under the shadow of A In i ma n. ' He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by ' — the noble and enduring interest in physical, historical,...

...bent on reforming the world. One is not surprised to learn -that the father had little joy in life. He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This was a topic on which he did not often speak, especially,...

...pleasure, but he attributed the greater number of the miscarriages in life to the overvaluing of pleasure. He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. For passionate emotions of all sorts he professed the greatest...

...pleasure, at least in his later years, of which alone, on this point, I can speak confidently. . . . He thought human life a poor thing at best after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. . . . He would sometimes say that if life were made what it might...

...;' the darkness, not of intellect, but of despair, and as one lying under the shadow oi Ahriman. ' He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by ' — the noble and enduring interest in physical, historical,...

...rejected " all that is called religious belief." It does not surprise one to learn further, that " he thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by." I fear that there is a large class of cultivated men and women...

...particular humour than by general principles."* The elder Mill's opinion is given by his son, thus : " He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This was a topic on which he did not often speak — especially,...