 | 1821 - 724 pages
...household articles. Gradually I became familiar with their wishes, thvir difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent:...cheerful submission to what they consider as irremediable evils, or irreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could do it without appearing to be intrusive,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 pages
...murmurs of discontent : but far offener expressions on the countenance, or uttered in words, of patifnce, hope, and tranquillity. And, taken generally, I must...cheerful submission to what they consider as irremediable evils, or irreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could do it without appearing to be intrusive,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 324 pages
...household articles. Gradually I became familiar with their wishes, their difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent...cheerful submission to what they consider as irremediable evils, or irreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could do it without appearing to be intrusive,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 pages
...difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent ; but far ofiener expressions on the countenance, or uttered in words,...cheerful submission to what they consider as irremediable evils, or irreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could do it without appearing to be intrusive,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 pages
...difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent; but far ofiener expressions on the countenance, or uttered in words,...cheerful submission to what they consider as irremediable evils, or irreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could do it without appearing to be intrusive,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 290 pages
...household articles. Gradually I became familiar with their wishes, their difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent;...cheerful submission to what they consider as irremediable evils, or irreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could do it without appearing to be intrusive,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1867 - 142 pages
...household articles. Gradually I became familiar with their wishes, their difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent...cheerful submission to what they consider as irremediable evils, or irreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could do it without appearing to be intrusive,... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...offener expression» on the countenance, or uttered in words, of patience, hope, and tran'I'lillity. h is sure to fill the body full of crudities and secret seeds of diseases. There "юге philosophic than the rich — that they "bow a more ready and cheerful submission to *h:it... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 636 pages
...household articles. Gradually I became familiar with their wishes, their difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent;...cheerful submission to what they consider as irremediable evils, or irreparable losses. Whenever I saw occasion, or could do it without appearing to be intrusive,... | |
 | H. A. Page - 1877 - 386 pages
...household articles. Gradually I became familiar with their wishes, their difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard murmurs of discontent,...And, taken generally, I must say, that, in this point of view at least, the poor are far more philosophic than the rich — that they show a more ready and... | |
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I listened to, as they stood consulting on their ways and means, or the strength of their exchequer, or the price of household articles. Gradually I became familiar with their wishes, their difficulties, and their opinions. Sometimes there might be heard... 
