...reading. Its beginning and ending frame a "mournful Narrative" on a perennial theme: "It has been observed in all Ages, that the Advantages of Nature or of Fortune have contributed very little to the Promotion of Happiness."105 Great expectations lead to great disappointments. Writing immediately after Savage's...

...divide of personality, place, and position, that separates them from his life. [1] It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank or the extent of their capacity have placed...

...Cinderella with an unhappy ending."30 It ends, in fact, and begins like a moral essay: It has been observed in all Ages, that the Advantages of Nature or of Fortune have contributed very little to the Promotion of Happiness. . . . ...Negligence and Irregularity, long continued, will make Knowledge useless, Wit ridiculous,...

...is, that it is short, Disguise can gratify no longer than it deceives. SAVAGE.* IT has been observed in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and that those, whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have...

...are not took upon advantage, nor consumed in our provocations." (South.) " Those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summit of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from...