 I have sought for such alleviation as my state admitted of, by the mode of life which most enabled me to feel her still near me. I bought a cottage as close as possible to the place where she is buried...  Autobiography - Page 251by John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1874 - 596 pages
...There is something pathetic in the language in which he describes his loss. ' I bought a cott-igf ns close as possible to the place where she is buried,...daughter (my fellow-sufferer and now my chief comfort) nnd I, live constantly during a great portion of the year. My objects in life are solely those which... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 544 pages
...feeling he had cherished towards her in life. Writing when she had been dead three years, he said, " Since then I have sought for such alleviation as my...place where she is buried, and there her daughter (my fellow sufferer and now my chief comfort) and I live constantly during a great portion of the year.... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 592 pages
...smiled at as superstition, this great philosopher, after the death of his wife, records : " In order to feel her still near me, I bought a cottage as close as possible to the place where she is buried. . . . Her memory is to me a religion." \ Kant, " Kritik der reinen Vernunft": "Der Kanon der reinen... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 556 pages
...feeling he had cherished towards her in life. "Writing when she had been dead three years, he said, " Since then I have sought for such alleviation as my...place where she is buried, and there her daughter (my fellow sufferer and now my chief comfort) and I live constantly during a great portion of the year.... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1874 - 524 pages
...words in literature than those in which he records his sorrow, for the cloud has no silver lining. Since then I have sought for such alleviation as my state admitted of, by the mode of life which now enabled me to feel her still near me. I bought a cottage as close as possible to the place where... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 600 pages
...Avignon in 1858. There is something pathetic in the language in which he describes his loss. ' I hought a cottage as close as possible to the place where she is buried, and tJ-.ere her daughter (my fellow-sufferer and now my chief 126 Autobiography of John Stuart Mill. Jan.... | |
 | 1874 - 332 pages
...nothing," he declares, " which could describe even in the faintest manner what that loss was and is." " Since then I have sought for such alleviation as my state admitted of by my mode of life, which most enabled me to feel her still near me. I bought a cottage as close as possible... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pages
...in the mode of life which best enabled him to feel her still near him. She died at Avignon, and he bought a cottage as close as possible to the place where she was buried ; and there he settled down in helpless misery, feeling that all that remained to him in... | |
 | James Simson - American literature - 1875 - 222 pages
...not like the idea of burying a friend as one would p1«: a favourite an1mal near an apple-free. '' I bought a cottage as close as possible to the place...live constantly during a great portion of the year" (p. 251). " And though the inspirer of my best thoughts was no longer with me, I was not alone : she... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - Death - 1878 - 266 pages
...morrow, their lives were saved. " Since then," says John Stuart Mill, writing of the death of his wife, "I have sought for such alleviation as my state admitted...place where she is buried, and there her daughter and I live constantly during a great portion of the year." "The comprehensive question," says Strauss,... | |
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