 | 1882 - 462 sivua
...returns are regular though the profits are small, make the possessor agree with Pope and Candide that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. Impossible not to be contented, happy, and religious, when your wishes are narrowed to a tidy dinner,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 380 sivua
...If at times he uses language which would fit into an orthodox sermon about a ' personal God ' (see Q Moralists, Pt. II. § 3), he more frequently seems...example, is the cause of parental affection ; and all philanthropical impulses are founded on the wants of man. ' What can be happier than such a deficiency... | |
 | 1873 - 808 sivua
...uses language *hich would fit into an orthodox к-гшоп about a 'personal God' (seo Moralists, PL II. § 3), he more frequently seems to draw his inspiration...example, is the cause of parental affection ; and all philanthropical influences are founded on the wants of man. ' What can be happier than such a deficiency... | |
 | 1873 - 852 sivua
...Leibnitz, ' Whatever is, is right,' as Pope expressed the lesson which he perhaps learnt from Shaftesbnry, or in the phrase of Pangloss, 'Everything is for the...example, is the cause of parental affection ; and all philanfhropical influences are founded on the wants of man. ' What can bo happier than such a deficiency... | |
 | 1873 - 822 sivua
...bottom of all Shaftesbury's eloquence lies the doctrine of optimism, which he shares with Leibuitz, ' Whatever is, is right,' as Pope expressed the lesson...ill in the universe. All that is apparently ill is tho mere effect of our ignorance. The weakness of the human infant, for example, is the cause of parental... | |
 | Edmond François V. About - 1878 - 252 sivua
...WC REMINGTONS' 22 Novels and Tales— Continued. does not hold, with the celebrated Pangloss, that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. "- — London. " There is a good deal of amusement to be found The complicated lawsuit which Seton,... | |
 | William Morton Halbert - 1878 - 234 sivua
...ST., STRAN D,J WC REMINGTONS' 22 Novels and Tales— doc* not hold, with the celebrated Pangloss, that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." — LCTU&H. " There is a good deal of amusement to be found. .... The complicated lawsuit which Seton,... | |
 | Marmaduke Edmonstone Browne - 1878 - 360 sivua
...in a most pleasant and inoffensive manner that he does not hold, with the celebrated Pangloss, that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." — Lrnidttn. * " There is a good deal of amusement to be found;. . . . The complicated lawsuit which... | |
 | William Swift (author of Wilhelm's wanderings.) - 1878 - 244 sivua
...in a most pleasant and inoffensive manner that he does not hold, with the celebrated Pangloss, that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." — London. " There is a good deal of amusement to be found. . . . The complicated lawsuit which Seton,... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - 1879 - 388 sivua
...conceals his disbelief in the doctrine of human perfectibility. Nevertheless, if he does not think that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, he perhaps considers that the world is as good as could reasonably be expected, and that matters are on... | |
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Whatever is, is right," as Pope expressed the lesson which he perhaps learnt from Shaftesbury, or in the phrase of Pangloss, " Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. 
