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" Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness... "
The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors - Page 209
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...victorious army, and an orator, after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly. JOHNSON. " Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not...capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher." I remember this very question very happily illustrated in opposition to Hume, by the Reverend Mr. Robert...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and ...

James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pages
...victorious army, and an orator, after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly. JOHNSON. " Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not...capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher." I remember this very question very happily illustrated in opposition to Hume, by the Reverend Mr. Robert...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1822 - 480 pages
...victorious army, and an orator, after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly. JOHNSOX. " Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may he equally salis/ied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness....
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The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and ...

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 pages
...army, and an orator after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly, Johnson said, " Sir, that all who are happy are equally happy, is not true....agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for haying equal happiness with a philosopher." This very question was once happily illustrated in opposition...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1826 - 430 pages
...victorious army, and an orator after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly. JOHNSON. "Sir, that all who are happy are equally happy, is not true....capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher." I remember this very question very happily illustrated in opposition to Hume, by the reverend Mr. Robert...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1827 - 622 pages
...victorious army, and an orator, after having made an eloquent speech in a great assembly. JOHNSON : " Sir, what had been done in this country by prior Lexicographers ; and no do phijo. sopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity...
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The Worcester Talisman, Volume 1

1828 - 244 pages
...money in, which they present you with. HAPPISESS. That all that are happy are equally happy is net true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied...Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousnesses. A peasant has not capacity for having tqual happiness with a philosopher. This question...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...the human character. — Cumberland. DCCXLIX. That all who- are happy are equally happy, is not tnie. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied,...question was very happily illustrated by the Rev. Mr. Kobert Brown, at Utrecht: " A small drinking glass and a large one," said he, "may be equally full,...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...against so feelingly: these are strange contradictions in the human character. — Cumberland. DCCXLIX. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied,...question was very happily illustrated by the Rev. Mr. Kobert Brown, at Utrecht: " A small drinking glass and a large one," said he, " may be equally full,...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 15

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...not multiplied, and appears but one, though seen with two or more eyes. Uerham's Phvtico-Theology . That all who are happy are equally happy is not true....in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A ¡u -i -mit has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher. This question was very...
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