... of our lives that it ran much faster than it does. Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay, we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that... The Spectator ... - الصفحة 2041803عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| John Timbs - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...liany wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry •ver, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. — Addition. XIV. The age of chivalry is gone, and one of calculators and economists has succeeded.... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find that at least nineteen of them are... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 780
...life, and yet are perpetually hurrying over the parts of it, to arrive at certain little settlement« shing it away, and the other always enjoying ч . How different iu* • Mean. " Now let us consider what happens t* us when we arrive at these imaginary points of... | |
| John Richardson Major - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 216
...with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. CXVII. If we divide the life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find, that at least nineteen of... | |
| Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find, that at least nineteen of them... | |
| REV. CHARLES BULLOCK - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 724
...with many wild and euipty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it."* Tue great waster of Time is that oft-quoted thing called " To-niorrow." It wasted yesterday : it wastes... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements of imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the lives of most men into twenty parts, we shall find that at least nineteen of them... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements of imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the lives of most men into twenty parts, we shall find that at least nineteen of them... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...the shortness of life, and yet are perpetually hurrying over the parts of it, to arrive at certain moke and thousand-fold exhalation, some fathoms into...of Night, what thinks Bootes of them, ns he leads h ua when we arrive at these imaginary points of rest. Do we stop our motion and sit down satisfied in... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find that at least nineteen of them are... | |
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