| Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray - 1822 - 264 էջ
...Hercules 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 - 1827 - 470 էջ
...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 - 1835 - 388 էջ
...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 (kni︠a︡gini︠a︡) - 1840 - 460 էջ
...which I 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 (knyaginya.) - 1840 - 468 էջ
...which I 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... | |
| 1845 - 214 էջ
...seeming, how plausible the cloak we wear, how disinterested the demeanour we adopt, the beginning and end of all things are — Humbug. We may start in...;' the bishop who clutches the mitre while ' nolo episcopari ' proceeds from his lips ; the ph lanthropist who votes ' baths and washhouses ' for the... | |
| 1851 - 776 էջ
...they 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... | |
| 1851 - 790 էջ
...Are they 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 purses becoming the spoil of Bedouins during his journey across... | |
| Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1853 - 338 էջ
...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... | |
| Frédéric Bastiat - 1860 - 580 էջ
...not engender it, calling out to diseased and distempered society, ' Laissez faire, laissez passer ; all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.' " In the name of science, I repel, I repudiate with all my might, such reproaches and such interpretations... | |
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