 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...the shortness of life, and yet are perpetually hurrying over the parts of it, to arrive at certain little settlements, or imaginary points of rest, which are dispersed up and down. Now what happens, when we arrive at these imaginary points of rest ? Do we stop our motion, and sit... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would lain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements...life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find that at least nineteen of them are mere gaps and chasms, which are neither filled with pleasure nor... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements...life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find that at least nineteen of them ore mere gaps and chasms, which are neither filled with pleasure nor... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 402 pages
...short" ness of life, and yet are perpetually hurrying over " the parts of it to arrive at certiffn little settlements, " or imaginary points of rest, which are dispersed up " and down in it." 4 Now let us consider what happens to us when we arrive at these " imaginary points of rest :" do we... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...would fain hurry over, that \\ e may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary point.-i of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If...life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find that at least nineteen of them are mere gaps and chasins, which are neither filled with pleasure nor... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements...life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find that at least nineteen of them are mere gaps and chasms, which are neither filled with pleasure nor... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain, hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements...life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find that at least nineteen of them are mere gaps and chasms, which are neither filled with pleasure nor... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...would fain hurry over, that we may arriar those several little settlements or imaginary puim of rett which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life of most men into twn '.\ parti, we shall find that at least nineteen of th<v are mere gaps and chasms, which are neither... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...time as thro' a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements...life of most men into twenty parts , we shall find that at least nineteen of them are mere gaps and chasms, which are neither filled with pleasure nor... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...time, as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements...points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. _ If we divide the life of most men into twenty pans, we shall find that at least nineteen of them... | |
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... most parts of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry... 
