| Francis Bacon - 1861 - Liczba stron: 854
...from the womb so to the tomb : Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Yet since with sorrow here we live opprest, what life is best? Courts are but only superficial schools... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1864 - Liczba stron: 444
...from the womb so to the tomb: Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Yet since with sorrow here we live opprest, what life is best ? Courts are but only superficial schools... | |
| Horace Mann - 1867 - Liczba stron: 252
...the womb, So to the tomb, Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years With care and fears ; — Who, then, to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust." THINK—ACT. JUST in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - Liczba stron: 822
...become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ? ' As Bacon says*— Who then to frail mortality shall trust ; But limns the water, or bat writes in dast.'' By the following summer much had been done to bind up the friendship again, and... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - Liczba stron: 374
...to become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause? As Bacon says — ' Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.' " ' By the following summer much had been done to bind up the friendship again, and Johnson writes... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - Liczba stron: 376
...become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ? As Bacon says — ' Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.1 " ' By the following summer much had been done to bind up the friendship again, and Johnson... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1879 - Liczba stron: 872
...from the womb so to the tomb : Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Yet since with sorrow here we live opprest, what life is best? Courts are but only superficial schools... | |
| Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - Liczba stron: 1108
...from the womb So to the tomb ; Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years With cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Yet since with sorrow here we live opprest, What life is best ? Courts are but only superficial schools... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - Liczba stron: 814
...society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause?" As Bacon says,1— " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns...should do also." He replied, " I hope I shall." Monday, Aug. 23. — Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - Liczba stron: 544
...society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ? " As Bacon says,1— " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns...should do also." He replied, " I hope I shall." Monday, Aug. 23. — Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited... | |
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