 | Andrew Somerville - Missions - 1874 - 408 pages
...study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.' Yes, without 'labour and intense study ' Paradise Lost would never have been built up ; and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. Ibid. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies... | |
 | William Howie Wylie - Authors, English - 1874 - 136 pages
...study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die." Through thirty years he steadily maintained that purpose, and then in blind old age formed... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1875 - 580 pages
...study, which I take to he my portion in this life, joined with tlte strong }>ropen-sity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.' ce qui fait qu'il a quelquefois pensd creux.' Why is it that the modem man of science stands... | |
 | Charles Harrison Vilas - 1875 - 244 pages
...UNDER THE WILL OF JOSEPH J. COOKE OF I GENEALOGY DESCENDANTS BY *' By labour and intent study , * * * / might perhaps leave something so -written to after times ^ as they should not .willingly let it die." MADISON, WIS.: PUBLISHED BY THE EDITOR. I87SA Entered according to Act of Congress in the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. ibid. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 pages
...study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with .the strongest propensity of nature, I might, perhaps, leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die." Klopstock,2 in one of his best odes, has described the instinctive desire of future reputation,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...study fwhich I take to be my portion in this life . joined with the strong propeasity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so WRITTEN to after times, as they should not willingly let die. — MILTON, Ckurch Wrong. — And if we do but watch the hoar, There never yet was human power Which... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - English language - 1877 - 366 pages
...now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, joined to the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written, to after times, as they should not willingly let it die. Steele. An old acquaintance, who met me this morning, seemed overjoyed to see me and told me,... | |
 | 1878 - 410 pages
...commemorate his remarkable gifts and services in language of enduring and permanent value, leaving "something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die." Mr. Christie did not reach his ultimate greatness, as some men do, at a bound, but his was... | |
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... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should... 
