 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 564 pages
...conquered Pompev ; or somebody conquered Pompey ; or rather, since Pompey is as little known now as Caesar, somebody conquered somebody. Such a poor business is this boasted immortality ; and such, as has been here described, ia the thing called glory among us !" Religion of NAT. DEL. p. 117. tend... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...conquered Pompey, or somebody conquered Pompey; or, rather, since Pompey is as little known now as Caesar, SOMEBODY CONQUERED SOMEBODY! Such a poor business is this boasted Immortality, and such as has been here described is the thing called Glory amongst us !" We were approaching Burham on one... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...as little known now as Caesar, somebody conquered somebody." — And he adds by way of reflection, " Such a poor business is this boasted immortality !...air, and what they despise, if not shun." But surely, as Horatio says to Hamlet " it were to consider too curiously, to consider thus." For though fame with... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...excellent author of The Religion of Nature Delineated', has treated it as highly , irrational' and absurd'. But surely " 'twere to consider too curiously'," as...should be, in the strict' analysis of it, no other than a mere uninteresting proposition', amounting to nothing more than that somebody acted meritoriously'... | |
 | Edward Blount - Afrikaners - 1821 - 226 pages
...conquered Pompey, or somebody conquered Pompey; or rather, since Pompey is as little known now as Ca?sar, somebody conquered somebody. Such a poor business is this boasted immortality; and such, as has been here described, is the thing called glory among us !" — Religion of Nat. del. THE EN1>.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...conquered Pompey, or somebody conquered Pompey ; or rather, since Pompey is now as littJe known as Caesar, somebody conquered somebody. Such a poor business is this boasted immortality ; and such as has been described is the thing called glory among us ! The notion of it may serve to excite them... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...excellent author of The Religion of Nature Delineated', has treated it as highly irrational' and absurd\ But surely " 'twere to consider too curiously'," as...should be, in the strict' analysis of it, no other than a mere uninteresting proposition', amounting to nothing more than that somebody acted meritoriously'... | |
 | Charles Butler (of Philadelphia.) - Conduct of life - 1836 - 306 pages
...the conqueror of Pompey conquered Pompey ; or rather, since Pompey is as little known now as Csesar, somebody conquered somebody. Such a poor business...air, and what they despise, if not shun." But surely " 't were to consider too curiously," as Horatio says to Hamlet, " to consider thus." For though fame... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 592 pages
...more to posterity, because his name is transmitted to them : he doth not live because bis name does. Such a poor business is this boasted immortality !...mere air, and what they despise, if not shun." But which constitutes the man — his body or his soul ? If his soul, then assuredly he does lire, though... | |
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Caosar is as much known by one designation as by the other. The amount then is only this: that the conqueror of Pompey conquered Pompey ; or somebody conquered Pompey; or rather, since Pompey is as little known now as Cssar, somebody conquered somebody.... 
