 | 1820 - 394 pages
...to take advantage of those riddles of humanity, which meaner moralists scarce venture to imagine ? " If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer...makes us the sport of death, when even David grew politickly cruel, and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men. But many are too early... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...to take advantage of those riddles of humanity, which meaner moralists scarce venture to imagine ? " If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer...makes us the sport of death, when even David grew politickly cruel, and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men. But many are too early... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...fractions make up but small round numbers, and our days of a span long make not one little finger. If the nearness of our last necessity, brought a nearer...makes us the sport of death ; when even David grew politickly cruel ; and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men. But many are too earlyold,... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition ; we live with death, and die not in a moment. * * * If the nearness of our last necessity, brought a nearer...; when avarice makes us the sport of death ; when David grew politickly cruel ; and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men. But many are... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...fractions make up but small round numbers ; and our days of a span long make not one little finger.^ If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer...the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying, • Oracula Chaldaica cum tcholiit PieUi et Fhethonis. fix x,--'''nu' ri/ut ,lv%a.) arcfxfuTiTai. Vi... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...to take advantage of those riddles of humanity, which meaner moralists scarce venture to imagine ? " If the nearness of our last necessity, brought a nearer...makes us the sport of death, when even David grew politickly cruel, and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men. But many are too early... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 pages
...make not one little finger.J If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer conformity into it, there were a happiness in hoary hairs, and no...makes us the sport of death, when even David grew politickly cruel, and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men. But many are too early... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1835 - 526 pages
...make not one little finger.J If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer conformity into it, there were a happiness in hoary hairs, and no calamity in half senses, i But the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying; when avarice makes us the sport of death,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 514 pages
...scarce venture to imagine ? "If the nearness of our lagt necessity brought a. nearer conformity unió it, there were a happiness in hoary hairs, and no...calamity in half senses. But the long habit of living indiejiosoth us for «lying— when avarice makes us the sport of death, when even David grew poluickly... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...fractions make up but small round numbers ; and our davs of a span long make not one little finger.(li6) If the nearness of our last necessity, brought a nearer...dying ; when avarice makes us the sport of death, (16S) Oracula Chaldaica cum scholiis Pselli et Phethonis BIT; \ivovTiav aiafia \l/v%al KaSrapiiirfTai.... | |
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If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer conformity unto it, there were a happiness in hoary hairs, and no calamity in half -senses. But the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying ; when avarice makes us the sport of death, when even... 
