...above." And there is hardly any one familiar with Mr. Cooper who has not heard more times than once: " O happiness ! our being's end and aim ! Good, pleasure,...still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we Dear to live or dare to die." " Remember, man, ' the universal cause Acts not by partial but by general...

...great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. (I, 267-280).' He insisted on happiness: «Oh happiness! our being's end and aim! / Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: » (Epistle IV, w. 1-2), and charity: In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's...

...(see Hicks 1982, 301). 89 Consumer Surplus: The First Hundred Years RB Ekelund Jr. and RF Hebert O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure,...Whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man Introduction...

...as an exciting novelty in the eighteenth century. In a celebrated couplet, Alexander Pope exulted: Oh happiness. Our Being's End and Aim, Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content, Whate'er thy Name. Happiness, bonheur, hailed, it has been said, by the eighteenthcentury philosophers as 'a new word...

...calculating in the streets? What, he asked Alexander Pope, is happiness? 'Oh Happiness!' replied Pope, 'our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content!...whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die, Which still so near us, yet beyond us...

...have already found, leads towards the goal. And that goal is happiness. Pope saw this when he said: O Happiness, our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content, whate'er thy name I He solved the problem — the universal goal is Happiness. Man pursues this goal instinctively. Thus...

...and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same. 8907 An Essay on Man Q 7R 5 c J /Ɏ M $a+x-'uB @ th'etemal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. 8908 An Essay on Man A wit's a feather,...

...progress. II HAPPINESS The present is the Age of Pastime, the Golden Reign of Pleasure SAMUEL FAWCONER1 Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content! Whate'er thy name ALEXANDER POPE2 What is the pulse of this so busy world? The love of pleasure . . . EDWARD YOUNG3 /will...

...this respect, one should recall the words of the great English poet, Alexander Pope (1688-1744): 0' happiness ! Our being's end and aim; Good, pleasure,...eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die. Evidently there is no common denominator for judging happiness, or, for that matter, unhappiness of...

...end and aim, Good pleasure, ease, content - whate'r thy name, That something, still that prompts the eternal sigh: For which we bear to live, or dare to die. — ALEXANDER POPE Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships,...