 ... indeed, (who might say nay) gloomy and hypochondriac minds, inhabitants of diseased bodies, disgusted with the present, and despairing of the future; always counting that the worst will happen, because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain...  The Life of Thomas Jefferson - Side 425av Henry Stephens Randall - 1868Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 360 sider
...because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened! My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope...All our other passions, within proper bounds, have an useful object. And the perfection of the moral character is, not in a stoical apathy, so hypocritically... | |
 | David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth - 1908 - 614 sider
...because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened ! My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope...but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of grief could be intended. I wish the pathologists... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 1922 - 328 sider
...touchstone of, his radicalism. The temperament of the radical is sanguine. He can say with Jefferson : "I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear...but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy." The conservative, on the other hand, is skeptical of the capacity of the mass of the people to protect... | |
 | John Adams, Thomas Jefferson - 1925 - 204 sider
...is an observation which was the inspiration of two notable letters from Adams. Jefferson remarked: "I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of grief could be intended." Adams was at the moment too much engaged with his AN IMAGINARY DIALOGUE amusing speculations on reliving... | |
 | Edward Howard Griggs - 1927 - 392 sider
...because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened! My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope...account. I have often wondered for what good end the sensation of grief could be intended. All our other passions, within proper bounds, have an useful... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1927 - 816 sider
...it has been founded on a principle of benevolence and more pleasure than pain dealt out to us. . . . My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern." In another respect was his old age youthful. He had none of the inflexibility of mind which age so... | |
 | 1928 - 444 sider
...because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened! My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope...but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy." It is wise for us to build monuments and memorials to the lives and characters of great statesmen whose... | |
 | 1928 - 858 sider
...how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened! My temperament is sanguine. I steel my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern....but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy." It is wise for us to build monuments and memorials to the lives and characters of great statesmen whose... | |
 | 1942 - 584 sider
...framed on a principle of benevolence, and more pleasure than pain dealt out to us. ... My temperament ia sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern. My hopes, indeed, somet imes fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. >4 We can only guess what Jefferson... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 sider
...because it may happen. To these I say, how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened ! My temperament is sanguine. I steer my bark with Hope...fail; but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.5 Putting to myself your question, would I agree to live my seventythree years over again forever?... | |
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