 | Richard Head - 1665 - 506 pages
...was, only a ftatue of duft kneaded with tears, and mov'd by the hid engines of reftlefs paffions ; a clod of earth, which the fhorteft Fever can burn to afhes, and the leaft fhowre of rheums wafh away to nothing ; and yet I made as great a noife in the world, as if both the... | |
 | Richard Head, Francis Kirkman - Drifters - 1665 - 516 pages
...was, only a ftatue of duft kneaded with tears, and mov'd by the hid engines of reftlefs paffions ; a clod of earth, which the fhorteft Fever can burn to afhes, and the leaft (howre of rheums warn away to nothing ; and yet I made as great a noife in the world, as if both the... | |
 | Sir George Mackenzie - Ethics - 1713 - 494 pages
...••'. . .. .' : THE . "*' ' . rVirtuofo or Stoic. CHA PI Of Afhfifm. ALBEIT Man be but a Statue of Duft kneaded with Tears, moved by the hid Engines...his reftlefs Paflions; a Clod of Earth, which the fliorteft Fever can burn to Afhes, and the leaft Shower of Rheums warn away to nothing ; yet makes... | |
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... broken by the hammer of Sacred Writ. Finding me in fo good a temper, he left me to God and my felf, for the perfecting of that work he had fo hopefully and fuccefsfully begun. I began to confider what I was, only a ftatue of duft kneaded with tears,... 