 Here was a panacea — a Qapfiaxov vrjiriv9(f for all human woes : here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pągina 6081853Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1853 - 816 pągines
...philosophers had disputed for so many ages at once discovered ! Happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket : portable ecstasies...of the poverty- stricken humbler classes of every pnrsnit, would feel no surprise on learning that the seductions which the above passage describes,... | |
 | 1877 - 798 pągines
...philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered ; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat - pocket ; portable ecstasies...pintbottle ; and peace of mind could be sent down by the mail." With this affectionate banter and playful solemnity does the Opiumeater, on first assuming... | |
 | 1822 - 962 pągines
...philosophers had disputed /or so many age*, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket : portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle : and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach. But, if I talk in... | |
 | 1853 - 672 pągines
...waistcoat-pocket — and how portable eestasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle — and how peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. He then comments on his own chequered mood, as follows : " But, if I talk in this way, the reader will... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 pągines
...philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered : happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket : portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle : and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail coach. But, if I talk in... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pągines
...should abscond, that is, into the other world. carried in the waist-coat pocket ; portable ecslacies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle ; and peace...mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. But if 1 talk in this way, the reader will think I am laughing ; and I can assure him that nobody will... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 pągines
...They should abmmd, that is, into the other world. carried in the waist-coat pocket; portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint-bottle ; and peace...mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. But if I talk in this way, the reader will think I am laughing ; and I can assure him that nobody will... | |
 | 1852 - 524 pągines
...the waistcoatpocket—and how portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle—and how peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. He then comments on his own chequered mood, as follows : " But, if I talk in this way, the reader will... | |
 | 1852 - 516 pągines
...waistcoatpocket — and how portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle — and how peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach. He then comments on his own chequered mood, as follows : " But, if I talk in this way, the reader will... | |
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