D'Argenson realized the situation which the independent Maisonneuve had created, and doubtless it is in consequence of these painful impressions that he penned the following pessimistic description of the settlement.
Minky in a pessimistic mood passed in behind his counter.
And the resulting prophecy would necessarily be an evil, or at least a pessimistic one.
Of the two conflicting views regarding the effect of anti-Christian attacks--the pessimistic and the optimistic--it is the former which appears to me the more likely to be correct.
The truth of the matter will best be learnt from the lips of those to whom pessimistic admissions must be peculiarly distressing, and who would therefore be the last either to raise a false alarm or to be guilty of an exaggeration.
That would be all right on the pessimistic theory of the world.
At this time Miles was affecting a tone about marriage which gave Mrs. John Maturin valuable hints for her new pessimistic novel.
They had collapsed badly on Lord Farringham's pessimistic speech.
Count Benckendorff told me that Prince Lichnowsky, when he returned from leave about a month ago, had intimated that he held pessimistic views regarding the relations between St. Petersburg and Berlin.
The Turkish Government evidently did not share this pessimistic view, for it decorated the two Turks who had led the bashi-bazouks in the massacre.
Miss Parker shook her head; she seemed to be in a pessimistic mood.
He seemed more pessimistic than during the drive down from the station.
Yet these pessimistic judgments do not seem to make due allowance for the inescapable evils attendant on any transition stage.
And yet an historical survey of religions, and especially a survey of the thoughts and accomplishments of Moslem reformers during the past century, seem to refute these pessimistic charges.
Whether or not this pessimistic outlook is justified, certain it is that not merely India but the entire Orient is in a stage of profound transition; and transition periods are always painful times.
Here Komensky gives us what, for one who was married three times, and is not known to have been unhappy in marriage, seems an intensely gloomy and pessimistic view of married life.
Here, in accordance with the pessimistic note which characterises the book, we are told that all earthly authority is evil, but that if it did not exist, the condition of the world would be yet worse.
The truth, however, is that the sceptic, pessimistic Turgenef could not as an artist faithful to his belief do aught else with his heroes than to let them perish.
He was filled with the pessimistic woe of the world, believed at bottom that man, born in sorrow, must also live in sorrow.
The optimistic and pessimistic points-of-view are the means by which the concordant and discordant notes in life are sounded.
The attitude in Bohemia has been that of pessimistic resignation.
Side-stepping these pessimistic croakers, the organizers would go on to their task with undiminished self-confidence and energy.
Some holdpessimistic views looking to its early extinction; but these are not warranted by the outlook, for in spite of the conditions named, the last three census show a slight but continuous increase in the total number of Indians.
Among the thinking and advanced class of Indians there is, after all, no real bitterness or pessimistic feeling.
That this desire would not exist if the pessimistic idea of Buddhism regarding existence were well founded is evident.
That conclusion need by no means render uspessimistic concerning the future of sexual hygiene, nor unduly anxious to cling to the policy of the past.
It only remains to observe that the recognition of the futility of such attempts by no means necessarily involves a pessimistic conservatism.
In so far as these causes are concerned, Udny Yule states, the fall is quite normal and pessimistic views are misplaced.
A pessimistic conception of life is arrived at by a complex psychological process in which both feelings and reflection are involved, and hence it is difficult to analyse it satisfactorily.
It is therefore impossible to utilise records of movements in the study of the pessimisticstate of mind.
Besides the philosophical theories of the last century, those of Schopenhauer, von Hartmann and Mailaender, which I discussed sufficiently in The Nature of Man, poets have formulated a pessimistic view of life.
He agreed thoroughly with the pessimistic philosophers who declare that the ills of life far surpass the good things.
History of a man of science who was pessimistic when young and who became an optimist in old age.
In the pessimistic period of his life, Goethe often cherished the idea of suicide.
The closest absorption and hard work made his existence more tolerable, but his pessimistic conception was not in the least altered.
The result, which agreed with what had already been obtained by Mr. Colegrove, an American psychologist, was unfavourable to the pessimistic view.
The powerful influence of love on the life of Goethe was specially prominent in this period when he was passing from pessimistic youth to optimistic maturity.
In The Nature of Man, I showed that most of the great pessimistic writers had been young men.
Everyone knows the pessimistic wail of Ecclesiastes, written nearly ten centuries before our era: “Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity.
The pessimistic tendency sometimes appears in the writings of many Greek and Latin philosophers and poets.
Pessimistic Philip could no longer reproach her for having blasted his hopes, for he had a new chance if he chose to improve it.
He listened with such grace as he could to Uncle Martin, whose pessimistic oration to-day chanced to be on the general ignorance and uselessness of doctors.
But if Christianity was, as these people said, a thing purely pessimistic and opposed to life, then I was quite prepared to blow up St. Paul's Cathedral.
Christianity was accused, at one and the same time, of being too optimistic about the universe and of being too pessimistic about the world.
Because he is allowed to be pessimistic as a military adviser he is being pessimistic as a recruiting sergeant.
Just as a microbe might feel proud of spreading a pestilence, so the pessimistic mouse might exult to think that he was renewing in the cat the torture of conscious existence.
All optimistic thoughts about England and all pessimistic thoughts about her are alike reasons for the English patriot.
But I suppose this pessimistic view is natural if you eat three meals a day with a tableful of melancholics.
I've never seen anybody like that man; he's always pessimistic and morbid and down.
He gets awfully pessimistic about the future of the universe; but I don't wonder, with such a cheerless life as he leads.
The route followed by the German army left me no doubt as to the coming invasion of Belgian Luxemburg, and I telegraphed this pessimistic forecast to my Government.
The pessimistic feeling of the diplomatic corps was increased on the following day, the 25th, by the language addressed to it at the Wilhelmstrasse.
What reason did he give for this pessimistic statement, which impressed his royal visitor all the more strongly since the belief in the peaceful sentiments of the Emperor had not yet been shaken in Belgium?
Elgin, expostulating with Lord John Russell, who was as pessimistic as ever, and threatened with recall, stuck to his guns under fierce obloquy, and the principle of responsible government was definitely established.
