| Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...— "This life is a scene of vanity that soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but' in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes...to be true, when you come to make up the account." Ibid. SIE ISAAC. NEWTON. SIB ISAAC NEWTON, universally acknowledged to be the ablest philosopher and... | |
| 1835 - 298 pages
...that this life is a scene of vanity, which soon passeth away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes...to be true, when you come to make up the account. SHIIIBOURN CASTLE, OXFORDSHIRE. IN the southern and most picturesque part of Oxfordshire, near the... | |
| 1835 - 538 pages
...that this life is a scene of vanity, which soon passeth away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes of another life. This is what I oan say upon experience, and what you will find to be true, when you come to make up tho account. SHIRBOURN... | |
| Thomas Turton - 1836 - 396 pages
...that this life is a scene of vanity, that soon passes away; and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes...to be true, when you come to make up the account." Let it not, however, be supposed that I would measure the faith of Cicero and of Locke, as to a future... | |
| 1838 - 1050 pages
...he left behind him for his friend Mr. Anthony Collins, one that " affords no solid satisfaction but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes of another life." He had no rest that night, and begged in the morning to be carried into his study, where, being placed... | |
| 1847 - 720 pages
...— ' This life is a scene of vanity that soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes...to be true, when you come to make up the account.' This life's a dream, an empty show; But the bright world, to whrch 1 go, Hath joys substantial and... | |
| John Hayward - 1842 - 448 pages
...that this life is a scene of vanity, which soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes...true, when you come to make up the account. Adieu ! " JOSEPH ADDISON, a celebrated English writer, was born at Milston, in Wiltshire, in the year 1672.... | |
| John Hayward - 1845 - 458 pages
...that this life is a scene of vanity, which soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes...true, when you come to make up the account. Adieu ! '* JOSEPH ADDISON, a celebrated English writer, was born at Milston, in Wiltshire, in the year 1672.... | |
| John James Tayler - 1845 - 616 pages
...is, that this life is a scene of vanity that soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes of another life. This is what I say on expertence, and what you will find to be true, when you come to make up the account. Adieu."... | |
| 1845 - 488 pages
...death, " This life is a scene of vanity, which soon passes away, and affords no solid satisfaction, but in the consciousness of doing well, and in the hopes of another life. This is what I can say from experience ; and what you will find to be true, when you come to make up the account." To one... | |
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