 | 1878 - 396 páginas
...and revolutions, I have learned from thence this truth : — That all is vanity which HAST TESTIMONY. is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety. — Evelyn s Epitaph, bij himself. JEW ARE OF THAT ЩьКАР, SOYS. ШЕТ me tell you a tale of a... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 512 páginas
...Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety, Of five Sons and three Daughters born to him from his most vertuous and excellent Wife, Mary, sole... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1850 - 432 páginas
...he had learned from thence this truth, which he desired might be thus communicated to posterity ; " THAT ALL is VANITY WHICH is NOT HONEST ! AND THAT THERE IS NO SOLID WISDOM BUT IN REAL FIFTY !" FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. STILL abide the heaven-born three, Faith, and Hope, and Charity... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1852 - 424 páginas
...extraordinary events, I learned from them this truth, which I desire may be thus communicated to posterity: that all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety." Old Thomas Adam too, thus writes, respecting himself: " I know all is for the best, and would leave... | |
 | Benjamin Elliott Nicholls - 1852 - 460 páginas
...children. Compare xxvii. 9, with xxxvii. 31. By such examples we are taught, " that all is vanity that is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety." — Evelyn. The devil in tempting Eve, the builders of Babel, and Joseph's brethren, thought to defeat... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 506 páginas
...revolutions, he had learned from thence this truth, which he deemed might be thus communicated to posterity : that all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety." — His son, John Evelyn, was the author of several pieces in Dryden's miscellanies. BORN AD 1639.... | |
 | Benjamin Elliott Nicholls - 1853 - 410 páginas
...children. Compare xxvii. 9, with xxxvii. 31. By such examples •we are taught, " that all is vanity that is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety." The devil in tempting Eve, the builders of Babel, and Joseph's brethren, thought to defeat God's purposes... | |
 | John Donaldson - 1854 - 264 páginas
...interred at Wotton, beneath a white marble stone, with the inscription according to his own intention—" That all is vanity which is not honest ; and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety." lie had of family live sons and three daughters : the former all died young, except the third, who... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1854 - 252 páginas
...as a naturalist and an author, engraving on his marble monument, as the result of long experience,, that " all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety." The diligent and acute Bentley, reached fourscore; and Walker, seventy-five; and Dr. Samuel Johnson,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1855 - 256 páginas
...he learnt, as himself asserted, this truth, which pursuant to his intention, is here declared, — "That all is Vanity, which is not Honest, and that there is no solid Wisdom but in real Piety." Of five sons and three daughters born to him from his most virtuous and excellent wife, Mary, sole... | |
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Living in an age of extraordinary Events and Revolutions, he learnt (as himself asserted) this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — That all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real Piety... 
