 | Sir Thomas Browne - Gardening - 1896 - 252 pages
...destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, 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 - Literature - 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 - Medicine - 1900 - 468 pages
...extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves." " Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding...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... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1904 - 872 pages
...destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding,...merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mature of our few and evil days; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...destroy us or themselves. To 10 weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding...in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few 15 and evil days, and, our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1905 - 484 pages
...destroys us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding,...of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a mereiful provision in nature, whercby we digest thc mixture of our few and evil days: and our delivered... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...destroy us or themselves. To 10 weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To_Jbe ignorant of pvila tp cnmp a^rl fnrgret.fnT of Pvils past, is a merciful provision in nature^... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Bookbindings - 1907 - 82 pages
...Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil dayes, and our delivered... | |
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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 sorows are not kept raw by... 
