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 - Página 24de Sir William Hamilton - 1865Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
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...miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a hiftory, but a piece of poetry, and would found to common ears like a fable ; for the world, I count it not an inn, but an hofpital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myfelf ; it is the mic'rocofm... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. On Himself, \ s 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 microcosme of mine own frame, that I cast mine eye on : for... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...which Cupid strikes, far sweater than the sound of an instrument. f)n Himself, Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not...it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to Hve, but to die in. The world ' / that I regard is myself; it is the microcosme 6f mine own frame,... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 páginas
...which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. On Himself, Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate were not a history, hut a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 páginas
...among the many parts of the llcligio Medici that deserves to be indelibly imprinted on the memory. " For the world, 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 mine own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the... | |
| 1831 - 370 páginas
...is only God. All others do transcend a unity, and so by consequence are many. 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 mine own frame, that I cast mine eye on ; for... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 páginas
...God : all others do transcend an unity, and so by consequence are many. XI. 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 that I cast mine eye on ; for the... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 276 páginas
...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... | |
| Horace Smith - 1836 - 326 páginas
...character of the following passage from Milton : — " For the world, I count it not as an inn but a hospital ; and a place not to live but to die in. The world that I regard is myself. It is mine own frame that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, I use... | |
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