 At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest...  The Quarterly Review - Page 15edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Nicholas Capaldi - Art - 2004 - 472 pages
...happiness to you?' And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, 'No!' At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for.2 [Italics added] Although he had not yet met Carlyle, Mill's description of the crisis, written... | |
 | Laura J. Snyder - Science - 2010 - 386 pages
...happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. 10 He seemed no longer to care about reforming the world. The education he had received, and indeed... | |
 | Robert D. Richardson - Philosophers - 2006 - 660 pages
..."an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered 'No!'" "At this," he says, "my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for."14 James too had been through a long vocational crisis marked by unshakable depression. Mill's... | |
 | Lionel Robbins Baron Robbins - 268 pages
...happiness to you?' And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, 'No!' At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was...in the means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for.1 And now Mr Packe: One evening in 1826 just as the year was dying John Mill looked up restlessly... | |
 | L. Bruni - Business & Economics - 2007 - 635 pages
...whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. All my happiness was to have been found on the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased...any interest in the means? I seemed to have nothing to live for'. References Aristotle (1915), WD Ross (trans.), Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University... | |
 | Inessa Medzhibovskaya - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 451 pages
...down. All my happiness was to have been found in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had seemed to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means? 1 seemed to have nothing left to live for."8 Only hardcore skeptics would deny the arresting similarity... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1873 - 800 pages
...to you ? ' And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, 'No!' At this my heart sank within me : the whole foundation on which my life...means ? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. He fell into a state of dejection which lasted for months. He carried it into all companies, into all... | |
 | 1907 - 1210 pages
...irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered ' No ! ' At this, he goes on, ' my heart sank within me ; the whole foundation on which my life...means ? I seemed to have nothing left to live for.' It would take too long to recall here how Mill found solace in this mood, and how he finally emerged... | |
 | William Josephus Robinson - Medicine - 1925 - 1044 pages
...this my heart sank within me : the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down. . . . The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever...means? I seemed to have nothing left to live for. . . . The lines in Coleridge's "Dejection" exactly describe my case: — "A grief without a pang, void,... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1874 - 490 pages
...in the continual pursuit of this end. The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever be again any interest in the means ? I seemed to have nothing left to live for." In the following passage he describes his delivery from this dejection : — " I was reading, accidentally,... | |
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