...iii. M.->n'» life XI. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty aconitant * * miracle, years, winch to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry,...hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of mine own frame that I cast mine eye on ; for...

...he makes in relation to what Sir Thomas Brown asserts of the course of his own life, that it was " a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable." Now it is not known that any thing extraordinary ever befell him. " The wonders," says Johnson, "probably...

...the species, that " the proper study of mankind is man." " For the world," says Sir Thomas Browne, " I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on ; for the...

...PvbKut Scipio. Cic. de Off., lib. iii. xi. Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirtv <i»i.;i miracle. years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetiy, and would sound to common ears like a fable : for the world, I count it not an inn, but an...

...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...

...in their cold shadows, and all was dark about me. I felt that I could say with an old writer — " For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital, and a place not to live, but to die in." Week after week I lingered in Paris, hoping against hope, and always seeking her. I had a haunting...

...infills those who are leaving the light of earth. Victor Hugo. "VTOW, for my life, it is a miracle of years, which to •*•* relate were not a history,...poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. Thomas Browne. f\N parent knees a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee...

...piece of egotism, in which all believers in our spiritual immortality may share: "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 care like a fable.* For the world I count it not an inn but a hospital, and a place not to live but...

...piece of egotism, in which all believers in our spiritual immortality may share: — "For my life it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history, but a piece of poetry, mid would sound to common ears like a fable.* For the world 1 count * This boaat, which Dr. Johnson...

...others do transcend an unity, and so by consequence are many. Sect. 11. — Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not...hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm of my own frame * " Cic. de Off.," 1. iii. G that...