... a political body determined my re tirement. I do not know any one of the occupations by which a subsistence can now be gained, more suitable than su... ...e of necessity; which is generally less than the leisure allowed by office occupations, while the effect on the mind is far more enervating and fatigu... ...ve, through life, found office duties an actual rest from the other mental occupations which I have carried on simultaneously with them. They were suf... ...past eight till ten, at which hour most of us were called off to our daily occupations. Our first subject was Political Economy. We chose some sys te... ...sness of the woful fact. I carried it with me into all companies, into all occupations. Hardly anything had power to cause me even a few minutes’ obli... ...arlyle, it was only in proportion as I came to see the same truths through media more suited to my mental constitution, that I recognised them in his ... ... to look back on these two instances of success in an honest attempt to do mediate service to things and persons that deserved it. After the last hope... ...in the domain of thought, that of an interpreter of original thinkers, and mediator between them and the public; for I had always a humble opinion of ...