 I am surprised to see people overlook it, and think it matter of congratulation that winter is going, or, if coming, is not likely to be a severe one On the contrary, I put up a petition, annually, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm of one kind or...  Confessions of an English Opium-eater - Page 69by Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 49 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1877 - 798 pages
...the science of happiness. And I am surprised to see people overlook it, as if it were actually matter of congratulation that winter is going ; or, if coming,...as much snow, hail, frost, or storm, of one kind or another, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely everybody is aware of the divine pleasures which... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...point in the science of happiness. And I am surprised to see people overlook it, and think it matter of congratulation that winter is going ; or, if coming,...On the contrary, I put up a petition annually, for aa much snow, hail, frost, or storm, of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 514 pages
...point in the science of happiness. And I am surprised to see people overlook it, and think it matter of congratulation that winter is going; or, if coming,...other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware D d of the pleasures which attend a winter fire-side : candles at four o'clock,... | |
 | First flowers - 1825 - 306 pages
...mightily inclined to the sentiments so felicitously delivered on this subject by the OpiumEater. ' I put up a petition annually for as much snow, hail,...other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware of the pleasures •which attend a winter fire-side ; candles at four o'clock,... | |
 | Gift books - 1825 - 306 pages
...mightily inclined to the sentiments so felicitously delivered on this subject by the OpiutnEater. • I put up a petition annually for as much snow, hail,...other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware of the pleasures which attend a winter fire-side; candles at four o'clock, warm... | |
 | 1830 - 480 pages
...forlongs, ere Wilh spur we heat an acre.— Idem. WINTER. I am surprised to see people think it matter of congratulation that winter is going ; or, if coming, is not likely to he a severe one. On the contrary, I put up a petition annually, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 586 pages
...winter is going ; or if coming, tlml it is not likely to be a severe one. ' On the contrary,' says he, ' I put up a petition annually for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm, an the skies can possibly afford me.' Purely everybody is aware of the divine pleasures which attend... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 608 pages
...winter is going ; or if coming, that it is not likely to be a severe one. ( On the contrary,' suv he, * I put up a petition annually for as much snow, hail, frost, or utorm, as the skies can pnssiMy aiTnrd me.' Surely every body is aware of the divine pleasure* which... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1850 - 300 pages
...point in the science of happiness. And I am surprised to see people overlook it, and think it matter of congratulation that winter is going, or, if coming,...other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside, candles at four o'clock,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pages
...point in the science of happiness. And I am surprised to see people overlook it, and think it matter of congratulation that winter is going, or, if coming,...other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fireside, candles at four o'clock,... | |
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