 A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he...  The Spectator - Page 1511738Full view - About this book
 | 1786 - 694 pages
...ieads it. A battle or a triumph are coniunil'ires in which not one man in a mili ion is likely to he engaged; but when we fee a perfon at the point of...we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he fays or does, beeaufe we are fure that forae time or other we (hall ourfelves be in the fame melancholy... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1796 - 622 pages
...battle, or a triumph/ fays Mr. Addifun, ' are conjunctures in which not one jnan in a million is likoJy to be engaged ; but when we fee a perfon at the point...death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every tiling he fays or does; becaufe we are fure that fome time or other we (hall ourfelves be in the fame... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - Authors, English - 1796 - 640 pages
...lamenting over . JBurydice, in Virgil's Georgics : • ** Te veniente Die, te dccedcnte canebat." gaged; but when we fee a perfon at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he fays or does; becaufe we are fure, that fome time or other, we mall ourfelves be in the fame melancholy... | |
 | 1797 - 752 pages
...ourfehcj ourfelves perfonally and intimately inferefted. " A battle or a triumph," fays Mr. Addifon, " are conjunctures, in which not one man in a million...we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he fays or does ; becaufe we are fure thai, fome time or other, we (hall ourfclves be in the fame melancholy... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 pages
...be the cafe of every one who Breads it. A. battle or a triumph are conjectures in which not one in.a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we fee a perfon at the point of death, we cannot foibear being attentive to every thing hs fays or does, beeaufe we are fure that fome time or other... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...there is no other single circumstance in the story of any person, which can possibly be the case of any one who reads it. A battle or a triumph are conjunctures...in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...because there is no other single circumstance in the story of any person, which can possibly be the case of every one who reads it. A battle, or a triumph,...in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1807 - 514 pages
...find ourfelves perfonally and intimately intereiled. " A battle or a tri" umph," fays Mr. Addifon, " are conjunctures, in which not one " man in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we fee a " perfen at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive " to every thing he fays or does... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 302 pages
...is no other single circumstance in the story of any person, which can possibly be the case of <vvery one who reads it. A battle or a triumph are conjunctures...in a million is likely to be engaged; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...story of any person, which can possibly be the case of every one who reads it. A battle or a trinmph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does,... | |
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