 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 pages
...contests and disputes; I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. C. No. 27. SATURDAY, MARCH 31. By Steek. Ut nox langa, qwbus mentilur armica, diesque Iionga videtur... | |
 | Art - 1824 - 436 pages
...Contests and Disputes, I reflect with Sorrow and Astonishment on the little Competitions, Factions, and Debates of Mankind. When I read the several Dates...Contemporaries, and make our Appearance together." THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF OLD PICK-A-BACK, The Crazy Usher of our School, BEING A RIGHTE MERRY RHAPSODYE... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. SPECTATOR, No. 56. There is a tradition among the Americans, that one of their countrymen descended... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - Brothers and sisters - 1825 - 314 pages
...disputes — I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and disputes of mankind : when I read the several dates of the...contemporaries, and make our appearance together.' " On reaching Westminster-Hall, Mr. Richardson informed them it was built by William Rufus, or, more... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we ihall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together." m SONG. WHY so pale and wan,... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...consider that great day when we shall all of us be cotemporaries and make our appearance together. Spectator. Plato hearing it was asserted by some persons... | |
 | Christian life - 1827 - 316 pages
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...consider that great day when we shall all of us be cotemporaries and make our appearance together. Spectator. INTELLIGENCE. Features of the present age.... | |
 | Westminster Abbey - London (England) - 1827 - 218 pages
...herein recorded, in a religious sense ; for, as the great Mr. Addison observes, " when we read the dates of the tombs of some that died yesterday , and some six hundred years ago, we cannot help considering that great day, when we shall all of u» be cotemporaries, and make our... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...with sorrow and astonishment, on the liiile competitions,- factions and debates of mankind. When J read the several dates of the tombs, of some that...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. Ill Tiie Character of Mary , Queen of Seols. — ROBERTSON. TO all the charms of beauty, and the utmost... | |
 | Thomas Faulkner - Chelsea (London, England) - 1829 - 444 pages
...astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the funeral dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." Spectator. CURATES OF CHELSEA. 1746. Rev. Joseph Warton was Curate here, and took the small pox, and... | |
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... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,... 
