THE LIFE OF A JOCKEY, AND ON WASTING.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

  The world are apt to imagine that all persons engaged in pleasurable occupations lead a life of unsoiled happiness, forgetting that the daily scenes of gaiety and excitement which give a zest to the enjoyments of those who can use their own discretion in seeking amusements, have not the same influence over the minds of such men as devote their one and skill to the amusements of others. The constant ... of similiar exhibitions, however exciting they may be, loses their effect by repetition, and the pleasurable feeling of the performer merges into the consideration as to how far his individual interest...