I frequently asked myself, if I could, or if I was bound to go on living when life must be passed in this manner. I generally answered to myself that I did not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year. The Quarterly Review - Page 15edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
| 1874 - 596 pages
...leave him, not only nothing to believe, but nothing to live for. ' I frequently asked myself ' whether I was bound to go on living, when life must be passed...not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year.' Mill's was not a nature to rest in such a predicament. As we have already intimated, there lay dormant... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1874 - 802 pages
...niitur.il effect of causes that it was hardly possible for time to remove. I frequently asked myself, if I could, or if I was bound to go on living, when...not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year." And what rescued him from this abyss ? " When, however, not more than half that duration of time had... | |
| 1874 - 900 pages
...virtue or the general good, but also just as little in anything else. ... I frequently asked myself if I could, or if I was bound to, go on living, when...not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year."* This sad state of mind was the protest of the soul against the skeleton of intellectual formulas into... | |
| Edmund Burke - Books - 1874 - 650 pages
...and possibly overstrained minds in the course of their career. He says, " I frequently asked myself if I could, or if I was bound to, go on living, when...generally answered to myself that I did not think I (Jould possibly bear it beyond a year. When, however, not more than half that duration of time had... | |
| 1874 - 1020 pages
...— "I frequently asked myself, if I emH, or if I was bmnd to go on living, when life must be p.issed in this manner. I generally answered to myself, that I did not thiuk I could possibly hear it beyond a year. When, however, not more than half that duration of time... | |
| Christian Evidence Society - Apologetics - 1874 - 312 pages
...•we find his mind turning to suicide as its natural resource. "I frequently asked myself (p. 140) if I could, or if I was bound to go on living, if life was to be passed in this manner. I generally answered to myself that I did not think I could... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 600 pages
...leave him, not only nothing to believe, but nothing to live for. ' I frequently asked myself ' whether I was bound to go on living, when life must be passed 112 Autobiography of John Stuart Mill. Jan. ' in this manner. I generally answered to myself, that... | |
| Strivings - 1874 - 312 pages
...•we find his mind turning to suicide as its natural resource. "I frequently asked myself (p. 140) if I could, or if I was bound to go on living, if life was to be passed in this manner. I generally answered to myself that I did not think I could... | |
| James Simson - American literature - 1875 - 222 pages
...hardly possible for time to remove [although it went away of its own accord]. I frequently asked myself, if I could, or if I was bound to go on living, when...not think I could possibly bear it beyond a year. [Here we would have expected he would have made away with himself.] When, however, not more than half... | |
| Medicine - 1875 - 558 pages
...Stuart Mill meditated on the propriety of suicide. He frequently asked himself if he could, or if he was bound to go on living, when life must be passed in this manner. That brain-nutrition was defective at this time is made certain by what he says as to his memory. "... | |
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