 | 1882 - 462 էջ
...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,... | |
 | 1873 - 808 էջ
...bottom of all Shaftesbury's eloquence lies the doctrine of optimism, which he shares with Leibnitz, ' Whatever is, is right,' as Pope expressed the lesson...ill in the universe. All that is apparently ill is the mere effect of our ignorance. The weakness of the human infant, for example, is the cause of parental... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1873 - 382 էջ
...bottom of all Shaftesbury's eloquence lies the doctrine of optimism, which he shares with Leibnitz : ' Whatever is, is right,' as Pope expressed the lesson...ill in the universe. All that is apparently ill is the mere effect of our ignorance. The weakness of the human infant, for example, is the cause of parental... | |
 | Edmond François V. About - 1878 - 252 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Marmaduke Edmonstone Browne - 1878 - 360 էջ
...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 Morton Halbert - 1878 - 234 էջ
...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,... | |
 | William Swift (author of Wilhelm's wanderings.) - 1878 - 244 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1882 - 726 էջ
...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 yoi r wishes are narrowed to a tidy dinner,... | |
 | Belgravia - 1882 - 548 էջ
...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,... | |
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Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. 
