| Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1856 - 430 pages
...Cicero thus expresses himself: "There is, I know not how, in minds, a certain presage as it were, oa future existence. And this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable in the greatest geniuses und most exalted minds." It wan naturally to be expected that far more distinct and elevated views... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...There Is, I know not how, in minds a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence : this has the deepest root, and Is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exulted eouls. " To THE SPECTATOR. " SIR, " I AH fully persuaded that one of the best springs of generous... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...boston. ETEBNITY— believed in by all great Minds. There is, I know not how, in the minds of mon, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence...discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls. Cicero. ETEBNTTY— Preparing for. It is not in the heyday of health and enjoyment, — it is... | |
| Joseph Addison - English essays - 1864 - 472 pages
...in maxiinis ingeniis altissimisque animis et existit maxime, et apparet facillime. Cic. Tusc. Quest, There is, I know not how, in minds a certain presage...discoverable in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls. ' To the Spectator. ' SIR, — I am fully persuaded that one of the best springs of generous... | |
| Stephen Watson Fullom - Soul - 1865 - 324 pages
...not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence," says Cicero, " and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls." What proof can we receive beyond the united assurance of religion, nature, history, instinct,... | |
| Laura A. Colbert - 1873 - 284 pages
...pointing to the heights of immortality. Cicero said: "There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence...discoverable in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls." Addison, catching the same strain, writes : " If 't is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes... | |
| Frederick Altona Binney - 1873 - 238 pages
...if any, progress since the time when Cicero wrote—" There is, I know not how, in the minds of men a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence,...discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls." If we turn to the Bible we certainly find some assurance of our immortality, but R are left... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1881 - 946 pages
...rhigoline, one of the lightest of the petroleum naphthas, more effective even men," says Cicero, " a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence...takes the deepest root and is most discoverable in the than cocoaine, but the effects are less lasting. greatest geniuses and most exalted souls." May 28.... | |
| E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...ocean.— Robert Hall. TНЕRE is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage as it wero of a future existence, and this takes the deepest root and is most discoverable in the greatest geninses and most exalted souls.— Cieero. Comprehension of Eternity. None can comprehend eternity... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...animal sacrifices. BURKE: Abridgment of English History. There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence;...discoverable in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls. ClCERO. To treat a subject so interesting and momentous with levity or indifference — to exert... | |
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