Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic - الصفحة 24بواسطة Sir William Hamilton - 1865عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...did himself •write, to be sure, when scarcely beyond the limits of youth, — " For my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable." But such language, to one who rightly conceives the manner of the author, and truly catches his spirit,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 708
...insolent champion, beholds with pride the spoils and trophies of his victory over Adam. For my life it is Callimachus arc л piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not ал... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 710
...it champion, beholds with pride the spoils and trophies of his victory over Adam. For my life it is ou, unblemish'd form of Chastity ! 1 see ye visibly,...Supreme Good, to whom all things ill Are but as sla tbn world, I count it not an inn but a hospital, and a place not to live but to die in. The world that... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...interesting author we have only space for the following brief extracts : — OF MYSELF. For my life it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...like a fable. For the world I count it not an inn but a hospital, and a place not to live but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...interesting author we have only space for the following brief extracts : — OF MYSELF. For my life it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common cars like a fable. For the world I count it not an inn but a hospital, and a place not to live but... | |
| William Mountford - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...Tracing with burning lines of flame, On trembling hearts, his holy name. — ANON. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. — THOMAS BROWNE. AUBIN. Mr birthday I make a thanksgiving of to God, that it was when it was ; and... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 582
...others do transcend an unity, and so by consequence are many. SECT. xi. — Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not...history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common years like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...iusoicnt champion, beholds with pride the »poils and trophies of his victory over Adam. For my life it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn but a hospital, and a place not to live but to die in. The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...imagine him deliberately making the world acquainted with. He tells us therein that his life had been a miracle of thirty years, " which, to relate, were...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable ;" that he was unmarried, and had never yet cast a true affection on a woman ; that he had been a great... | |
| Clement Carlyon - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...gives us, more suo, the following exposition of dreams : — " I count not the world," he says, " as an inn, but an hospital, and a place not to live but to die in. The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part... | |
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