 To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by...  The Retrospective Review - Page 931820Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pages
...endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall...of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a mercifull provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil dayes, and our delivered... | |
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 pages
...To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall off like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy...of our few and evil days; and our delivered senses are not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.... | |
 | 1892 - 480 pages
...smart upon us." " Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or' themselves." " Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall...and forgetful of evils past is a merciful provision of nature." " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." " Diuturnity is a dream... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 504 pages
...endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fubles. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall...not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows arc not kept raw by the edge of repetitions. A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1893 - 154 pages
...endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall...unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetfull of evils past, is a mercifull provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1896 - 252 pages
...endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall...which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To CHAP. V. be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature,'... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 544 pages
...divide the course of time, and Oblivion shares with Memory a great part even of our living beings. . . . To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision of nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 pages
...callosities; miseries are slippery, 0 or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy j stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful...our few and evil days, and our delivered senses not i relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept/ raw by the edge of repetitions. A... | |
 | Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - 1900 - 468 pages
...smart upon us." " Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves." " Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery, or fall...and forgetful of evils past is a merciful provision of nature." " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us." " Diuturnity is a dream... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1902 - 440 pages
...darkness and have our light in ashes. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves: our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.1" An ineffable reserve shrouded this to him unforeseen fatality: he had never reason to... | |
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