| Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 páginas
...with feveral broken arches, which, added to thofe that were entire, made up the ; number a*. bout a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge confitted at firft of a thouland; but that a great flood fwept away the reft, and lefc the bridge in... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 372 páginas
...midst ol the tide, a—« The bridge thou seest, said he , is human life ; consider it attentively, n Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of tbres*core and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which , added to those that were entire,... | |
| Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1817 - 594 páginas
...discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life; consider it attentively. Upon...to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this biidge consisted at first of... | |
| Albert Picket - 1820 - 314 páginas
...discovcrest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou aeest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively....it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1820 - 144 páginas
...Leith and Edinburgh, and returned by a leisurely march. HAYWARD. The bridge is human life ; upon a leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten intire arches. — ADDISON." JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY. The reader will observe that Addison has united... | |
| 1822 - 788 páginas
...Uitnrely survey of it, I found that it consisted of generations of mortals that full into it." I directed threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were en'irc, made up the number about an hundred. As 1 was counting the arches, the Genius told me that... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 páginas
...in it." " I see a bridge." said I, " standing in the midst of the tide." " The bridge thou seest," said he, " is Human Life; consider it attentively."...to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 páginas
...in it.° " I see a bridge," said I, " standing in the midst of the tide." " The bridge thou seest," said he, " is human life; consider it attentively."...threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches,which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred. As I was counting... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...dieooverest in it. I fee a bridge, »aid I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, ave behaved very ill, said I within myself; but I have only just set out upon my travels; arche*, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely surrey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches,... | |
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