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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ESSAY HUMAN HAPPINESS. By C. B. ADDERLEY, M.P. The subject of this Essay has been a favoured theme in almost every age and country. In the brightest period of the philosophy of Greece, the connexion between Virtue and Happiness engaged the attention of the greatest minds, and gave a practical and enduring interest to the ethical disquisitions of the Academy and the Lyceum. At a later period, when surrounded by the dangerous seductions of Epicurus, the same question called forth the lofty principles of the Stoics, and roused the stern antagonism of that far nobler school. Still later, if we follow the track of Rome's intelligence, we find it occupying the thoughts of one who was her mightiest orator, and selected as a theme by some among her children, who have perpetuated, even to the age in which we live, the classic beauties of her imperishable song. In Spain, the chosen land of adventure and romance,the sober gravity of the subject has not deprived it of literary homage. In the days of that illustrious Prince of the House of Austria, whose youth was shielded by the experience of Ximenes, and whose age declined in the monastery of St. Justus, we find Mejia, in his apologue of' Idleness and Labour,' inviting, beneath the veil of a graceful allegory, the attention of his countrymen to the chief conditions on which human happiness depends. In Spain, too, as was the case at Rome, the theme received a tribute from her muse, and Mendoza, like a second Horace, addressed a more poetical Numicius. To take but one additional instance from the opposite extremity of Europe, we find, in a treatise entitled ' Rosgavor Schastu,' the subject now before us invested with all the interest which must attach to the productions of Karamsin, the distinguished poet and historian of the Nort...