 | 1805 - 590 pages
...Chesterfield. " I have run," says he, " the' silly rounds of business and pleasure, and I have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world,...their loss. I appraise them at their real value, which is, in truth, very low ; whfcreas those who have not experienced, always overrate them. They only see... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Apologetics - 1804 - 350 pages
...rounds of business and plea" sure, and have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the plea" sures of the world, and consequently know their futility,...their loss. I appraise them at their real value, which " is, in truth, very low. Whereas those that have not experi" enced, always over-rate them. They only... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...perhaps, in a settled indifference to all religion - Clever more gave hiraself'much concern -abuvxt it. and do not regret their loss. I appraise them at their real value, which, in truth, is very losv; whereas those who have not experienced, always over-rate them. They only see their gay outside,... | |
 | Missions - 1826 - 638 pages
...run,' says this man of the world, ' the silly rounds of business and pleasure, and have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world,...their loss. I appraise them at their real value, which is in truth very low; whereas those that have not experienced, always overrate them. They only see... | |
 | Charles Buck - Christian life - 1815 - 202 pages
...death. " I have run," says he, " the silly rounds of business and of pleasure, and I have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world,...not regret their loss. I appraise them at their real valne, which is in truth very low ; whereas those who have not experienced, always over-rate them.... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...rounds of business and pleasure, and have " done with them all.—I have enjoyed all the plea" sures of the world, and consequently know their " futility,...loss. I appraise " them at their real value, which is in truth very " low ; whereas those that have not experienced, " always overrate them. They only... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...rounds of business and pleasure, and have " done with them all. — I have enjoyed all the plea" sures of the world, and consequently know their " futility,...loss. I appraise " them at their real value, which is in truth very " low ; whereas those that have not experienced, " always overrate them. They only... | |
 | Richard Marks - 1823 - 258 pages
...run," says Lord C. " I have run the silly rounds of business and of pleasure, and I have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world,...their loss. I appraise them at their real value, which is truly very low ; whereas those who have not experienced, always over-rate them. They only see their... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 556 pages
...letters ! " I have run," says he, " the silly rounds of business and pleasure, and have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world,...their loss. I appraise them at their real value, which is, in truth, very low. Whereas those that have not experienced, always over-rate them. They only see... | |
 | 1824 - 588 pages
...insufficiency of the world to bestow real happiness. This nobleman said, at the close of his life, " I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world, and consequently know how, vain they are, and I do not regret their loss. When I reflect back upon what I have seen, and... | |
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I have seen,' says this man of the world, " the silly rounds of business and pleasure, and have done with them all. I have enjoyed all the pleasures of the world, and consequently know their futility, and do not regret their loss. 
