| 1867 - 902 pages
...XVI. — NO. LIX. K mortal. When he was told that there was no hope, he merely remarked, " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." These were the last words he was heard to utter. In examining the opinions of Thomas Hobbes, we will... | |
| Book - 1872 - 326 pages
...intimations were given that he might have ease but no remedy, he used this expression: ' / shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world at,' which are reported to have been his last sensible words ; and his lying some days following in a silent stupefaction did seem owing to... | |
| H.H.S - 1872 - 248 pages
...his candle extinguished, he was full of terror. His last words, as related of him, were, " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world." The Great Apostle of Infidelity, as he affected to be called, of a neighbouring nation, in great agonies... | |
| Joseph Parker - 1875 - 438 pages
...valorous man came— with pitiful reluctance and dismay — to face the inevitable, he said : " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." As to David Hume it will be found, on reference to his works, that he actually advised a sceptical... | |
| 1876 - 952 pages
...physician gave him no hope of a cure, he said, and it was his last conscious utterance, " Then I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at!" " And I loathe the squares and streets, And the faces that one meets, Huarts with no love for me :... | |
| Alfred Laverack - 1878 - 456 pages
...years of age. His last sensible words, when he found he could live no longer were these, " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." And, notwithstanding all his high pretensions to learning and philosophy, his uneasiness constrained... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 772 pages
...of genius I One of his last expressions, when informed of the approaches of death, was — " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." Everything was seen in « little way by this great man, who, having reasoned himself into an abjuct... | |
| Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - 1889 - 538 pages
...died. Francis Newport. — " Oh the insufferable pangs of hell and damnation ! " Hobbes. — " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." He had previously said that, were he the master of the world, he would give it all to live one day... | |
| Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 pages
...dissolution, that he wished he could sneak out of existence ; or. to use his own words, " he should be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." The nervous trepidation of Cowper was not less remarkable, who in vain endeavored to find a refuge... | |
| 1895 - 78 pages
...dread dissolution, that he wished he could sneak out of existence; or, to use his own words, "he should be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." The nervous trepidation of Cowper was not less remarkable, who in vain endeavored to find a refuge... | |
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