| Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...1 Magna est veritas et pnevalet. —The Vulgate. Usually quoted "Magna est veritas et pravalebit." When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.1 Witdam of Solomon vii. 3. Observe the opportunity.... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...whining at the first. — BURTOX: Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. stct. 2, mem. 3, fubstct. 10. . And when I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do. — The Witdom of Solomon, vii. 3. It was... | |
| Bernarr Macfadden - Breathing exercises - 1904 - 280 pages
...MERIT—HOW AN INEXPENSIVE SPIROMETEK CAN BE MADE AT HOME—TWO HOME-MADE SPIROMETERS ILLUSTRATED. " When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature."— Wisdom of Solomon. Most men and women of to-day know but little about breathing. They breathe in an... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1906 - 1198 pages
...the first. — BURTON: Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. xct. 2, mem. 3, tutaect. 10. And when I was bom I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do. — The Wisdom of Solomon, vii. 3. It was... | |
| Sanskrit literature - 1907 - 824 pages
...ossct, unum hominem accopimus Zoroastrum." The account of Solomon in the Apocrypha is more touching. " When I was " born, I drew in the common air " and...fell upon the earth which is of "like nature, and the first voice "which I uttered, was crying, as all " others do." •The Lucknow ed. says that this means... | |
| John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
...veritas et pnevalet. —The Vulyalt. Usually quoted " Magna est veritas et prevalebit." OLD TESTAMENT. When I -was born I drew in the common air, and fell opon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first "voice which I uttered was crying, as all others... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...simple village green; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar. TENNYSON — In Memoriam. Canto 64. 21 upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do. Wisdom of Solomon. VII. 3. (See also BURTON)... | |
| Charles-Edward Amory Winslow - Ventilation - 1926 - 204 pages
...problems which confront each human life, he began with the atmosphere. "When I was born," he says, "I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do." "The common air" is indeed the basic condition... | |
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