The quest of happiness : a study of victory over life's troubles
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The quest of happiness : a study of victory over life's troubles
- Publication date
- 1902
- Topics
- Happiness, Happiness -- Religious aspects, Christian life, Christian life, Happiness, Happiness -- Religious aspects
- Publisher
- New York : The Macmillan Company ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
- Collection
- americana
- Book from the collections of
- University of Michigan
- Language
- English
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xxii, 549 pages ; 21 cm
"Set up and electrotyped October, 1902"--Verso of title-page
Text within green ornamental borders; signed with monogram initials "BS" (reversed on rectos) by illustrator F. Berkeley Smith
Includes index
"Supplementary list, with authorities used in the foregoing chapters": pages 517-519
Happiness in its relation to man's growth, success,, and usefulness -- That happiness is latent in every form of trouble and suffering -- That inequalities of happiness by reason of the inequalities of talent are more seeming than real : with an outlook upon the tragedy of the ten-talent men -- That there are no circumstances nor conditions prohibitive of happiness : a study of the souls having the note of distinction -- Happiness and the problem of work and occupation -- Happiness through the pursuit and use of money : with an inquiry why some are unhappy despite their gold, offices, and honors -- Happiness through conversation and the cultivation of the soical life -- Happiness and the home as the spring of all good fortune -- Happiness and the friendship of books -- Happiness and the ministry of nature -- Happiness and the sense of sympathy with and enthusiasm for one's fellows, with an outlook on what it is to be a gentleman -- The three arch-enemies of happiness : hurry, worry, and debt -- The external helps to happiness : the importance of taking time, exercise, amusements, music, travel, outside interests, etc. -- Social happiness: the redemption of mankind from drudgery through tools and machinery -- The increase of social happiness through the new art movement and the diffusion of the beautiful -- Social happiness and the gains of the common people as a justification of individual happiness and hope -- Happiness and the religious problem
Publisher's aqua green pictorial cloth stamped in green, lilac, and gold with window frame and trellis motif with nearly-symmetrical grape vines climbing central muntin bars that form a cross; gold sun at center of cross; titles in gold on cover and spine; climbing grapevine and gold ornament on spine. Binding signed with separated initials "R R" by book designer Rome K. Richardson
xxii, 549 pages ; 21 cm
"Set up and electrotyped October, 1902"--Verso of title-page
Text within green ornamental borders; signed with monogram initials "BS" (reversed on rectos) by illustrator F. Berkeley Smith
Includes index
"Supplementary list, with authorities used in the foregoing chapters": pages 517-519
Happiness in its relation to man's growth, success,, and usefulness -- That happiness is latent in every form of trouble and suffering -- That inequalities of happiness by reason of the inequalities of talent are more seeming than real : with an outlook upon the tragedy of the ten-talent men -- That there are no circumstances nor conditions prohibitive of happiness : a study of the souls having the note of distinction -- Happiness and the problem of work and occupation -- Happiness through the pursuit and use of money : with an inquiry why some are unhappy despite their gold, offices, and honors -- Happiness through conversation and the cultivation of the soical life -- Happiness and the home as the spring of all good fortune -- Happiness and the friendship of books -- Happiness and the ministry of nature -- Happiness and the sense of sympathy with and enthusiasm for one's fellows, with an outlook on what it is to be a gentleman -- The three arch-enemies of happiness : hurry, worry, and debt -- The external helps to happiness : the importance of taking time, exercise, amusements, music, travel, outside interests, etc. -- Social happiness: the redemption of mankind from drudgery through tools and machinery -- The increase of social happiness through the new art movement and the diffusion of the beautiful -- Social happiness and the gains of the common people as a justification of individual happiness and hope -- Happiness and the religious problem
Publisher's aqua green pictorial cloth stamped in green, lilac, and gold with window frame and trellis motif with nearly-symmetrical grape vines climbing central muntin bars that form a cross; gold sun at center of cross; titles in gold on cover and spine; climbing grapevine and gold ornament on spine. Binding signed with separated initials "R R" by book designer Rome K. Richardson
- Addeddate
- 2008-03-03 23:26:42
- Associated-names
- Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley), 1869-1931, illustrator; Richardson, Rome K., 1877- binding designer; Macmillan Company, publisher; Macmillan & Co., publisher; Norwood Press, printer; J.S. Cushing & Co., printer; Berwick & Smith, printer
- Copyright-region
- US
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- questhappinessa01hillgoog
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t5v69fg5g
- Lccn
- 02026083
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.14
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL23450585M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL2529321W
- Page_number_confidence
- 0
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.5
- Pages
- 576
- Pdf_module_version
- 0.0.25
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Scandate
- 20060224000000
- Scanner
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 3132482
- Year
- 1902
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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