 I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow : when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 451833Full view - About this book
 | Art - 1824 - 436 pages
...deposed them, when I consider rival Wits placed Side by Side, or the holy Men that divided the World with their Contests and Disputes, I reflect with Sorrow...Contemporaries, and make our Appearance together." THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF OLD PICK-A-BACK, The Crazy Usher of our School, BEING A RIGHTE MERRY RHAPSODYE... | |
 | William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - Anecdotes - 1824 - 392 pages
...with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion. When I see the tombs of parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving...sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs of some that died yesterday, and... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. SPECTATOR, No. 56. There is a tradition among the Americans, that one of their countrymen descended... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...them ; when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes ; I reflect, with sorrow...consider that great day, when we shall all of us be cotemporaries, ami make our appearance together. SECT. IV.] 137 III. — The Character of Mary, Queen... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - Brothers and sisters - 1825 - 314 pages
...them — when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men, that divided the world with their contests and disputes — I reflect with sorrow...astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and disputes of mankind : when I read the several dates of the tombs — of some that died yesterday, and... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...deposed them, when 1 consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow...hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we ihall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together." m SONG. WHY so pale and wan,... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...them ; when I consider rival wits placed side by side ; or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow...consider that great day when we shall all of us be cotemporaries and make our appearance together. Spectator. Plato hearing it was asserted by some persons... | |
 | Christian life - 1827 - 316 pages
...them ; when I consider rival wits placed side by side ; or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow...consider that great day when we shall all of us be cotemporaries and make our appearance together. Spectator. INTELLIGENCE. Features of the present age.... | |
 | Westminster Abbey - London (England) - 1827 - 218 pages
...herein recorded, in a religious sense ; for, as the great Mr. Addison observes, " when we read the dates of the tombs of some that died yesterday , and some six hundred years ago, we cannot help considering that great day, when we shall all of u» be cotemporaries, and make our... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1829 - 444 pages
...them ; when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow...factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the funeral dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider... | |
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