 | 1738 - 310 páginas
...ourfelves be in the fame melancholy Circumftances. The General, the Statefman, or the Philofopher, are perhaps Characters which we may never act in ; but the dying Man is one whom, fooner or later, 'we fiiall certainly referable. IT is, perhaps, for the fame kind of Reafon that few... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1796 - 640 páginas
...ourfelves be in the fame melancholy circumftances. The general, the ftatefman, or the philofopher, are perhaps characters which we may never act in; but the dying man is one whom, fooner or later, we fhall certainly referable." Thus while thefe inftructive pages teach us how to... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 páginas
...fame melancholy chxumftances. The General, the Statefman, or the Fhilofopher, are perhapscharacters. which we may never act in ; but the dying man is one whom fooaer or later we fhall certainly referable. It i» perhaps for the fame kind of reafon that few books... | |
 | 1803 - 412 páginas
...story of any person, which can possibly be the case of every one who reads it. A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million...whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble. It is perhaps, for the same kind of reason, that few books written in English have been so much perused... | |
 | 1803 - 372 páginas
...sometime or other we shall ourselves be in the same melancholy circumstances. The general, the statesjman, or the philosopher, are perhaps characters which we...whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble. It is, perhaps, for the same kind of reason that few books written in English, have been so much perused... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...story of any person, which can possibly be the case of every one who reads it. A battle, or a triumph, are conjunctures in which not one man in a million...; but the dying man is one whom, sooner or later, AVC shall certainly resemble. It is, perhaps, for the same kind of reason, that few books, written... | |
 | William Hayley - 1806 - 484 páginas
...commemorated are observed to excite a peculiarity of interest, which Addison has well explained by saying—" The dying man is one, whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble." The death of Addison himself, so distinguished by Christian serenity, and so feelingly recorded by... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 490 páginas
...are observed to excite a peculiarity of interest, which Addison has well explained by saying — " The dying man is one, whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble." The death of Addison himself, so distinguished by Christian serenity, and so feelingly recorded by... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 302 páginas
...story of any person, which can possibly be the case of <vvery one who reads it. A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million...whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble. It is perhaps, for the same kind of reason, that few books written in English have been so much perused... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 páginas
...circumstances. The general, the statesman, or the philosopher, are perhaps characters which we may never act ini but the dying man is one whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble. It is perhaps, for the same kind of reason, that few books written in English have been so much perused... | |
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A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does, because we are sure that some time or... 
