 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 628 pages
...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 senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept CHAP,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 678 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 574 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,...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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 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,...digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our 1 the emperor Hadrian - an impudent coward in the Greek army against Troy, see the Iliad or Troilus... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 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,...digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our 1 the emperor Hadrian 2 an impudent coward in the Greek army against Troy, see the Iliad or Troih1s... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are I found myself quietly seated in my bachelor armchair,...[220 John L. (or James Elia) was gone for ever. TH [230 we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 264 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...whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days. . . . In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - Fiction - 1922 - 256 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...ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, 37 is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and,... | |
 | Paul Jordan-Smith - Literature - 1924 - 304 pages
...might lie ahead. For "to weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding...whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days." Heeding the call of this seventeenth century essayist, we leave cards of regret at the house of heresy... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are r she 1 the emperor Hadrian 2 an impudent coward in the Greek army against Troy, see the Iliad or Troilus... | |
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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... 
