| Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray - 1822 - 264 pages
...to subdue her. How wise dame Nature is! She has made other women mild and weak ! I see plainly that all is for the best, in this best of all possible worlds ! Come on, let every thing take its proper order, and be appeased, thou spiteful girl. I am no more... | |
| Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Theobald Wolfe Tone - Ireland - 1827 - 470 pages
...of the circumstances where we gain by the present expedition. But enough of this for the present. " All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." 14. General Daendels showed me to-day his instructions from the Dutch Government. They are fair and... | |
| Victor Jacquemont - India - 1835 - 388 pages
...Ramond's. He has a son-in-law of forty-five, an old naval officer, amiable, witty, and well informed. All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. I sleep little, but eat heartily ; I work a great deal, and am extremely well pleased here. I learn... | |
| Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (knyaginya.) - 1840 - 468 pages
...send you as a proper accompaniment to your pretty piece of an harangue ; being quite persuaded that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. I am pleased to find that the book which I lent you has not been altogether useless, and still more... | |
| Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (kni︠a︡gini︠a︡) - Russia - 1840 - 460 pages
...send you as a proper accompaniment to your pretty piece of an harangue ; being quite persuaded that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. I am pleased to find that the book which I lent you has not been altogether useless, and still more... | |
| Hints - Great Britain - 1845 - 174 pages
...doctrine, but it is a true one ; and though we should agree with Doctor Pangloss, in " Candide," that " all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds," still, if we impartially consider the matter under its various phases, we must equally acknowledge,... | |
| 1845 - 214 pages
...doctrine, but it is a true one; and though we should agree with Doctor Pangloss, in ' Candide,' that ' all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds,' still, if we impartially consider the matter under its various phases, we must equally acknowledge... | |
| Scotland - 1851 - 792 pages
...perhaps in the right » —Who knows ! " And the eccentric rambler, trying to persuade himself that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, suggests the probability of his five parses becoming the spoil of Bedouins during his journey across... | |
| England - 1851 - 776 pages
...perhaps in the right ! —Who knows I " And the eccentric rambler, trying to persuade himself that all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, suggests the probability of his five purses becoming the spoil of Bedonins during his journey across... | |
| Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - India - 1853 - 338 pages
...from the muzzle of the gun. CHAPTER VII. SPORT IX SOUTH AFRICA — AN EPISODE IN MY VOYAGE HOME. " ALL is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." I did not think so when, bumping upon a rock near the entrance to Table Bay, we made incision in the... | |
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