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" ... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,... "
The Juvenile Tourist ; Or, Excursions Into the West of England: Into the ... - Page 392
by John Evans - 1818 - 520 pages
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Instructive Rambles: In London, and the Adjacent Villages. Designed to Amuse ...

Elizabeth Helme - 1800 - 314 pages
...reflect with sorrow and asto••* riishment on the little competitions, fac• tions, and disputes of mankind: when ' I read the several dates of the...shall all of us be ' contemporaries, and .make our appear« ance together.' On reaching Westminster-hall, Mr. Richardson informed them it was built by...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

1803 - 434 pages
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment, on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. C. No. XXVII. SATURDAY, MARCH 31. Ut nox longa, quibus mentitur arnica, diesque Longa videtur opus...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

1803 - 420 pages
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we sJiall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together. \ C. No. XXVII. SATURDAY, MARCH...
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The letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to several of his friends ..., Volume 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1804 - 450 pages
...contests and disputes, I reflect with sor' row and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, ' and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hun' dred years ago, 1 consider that great day when we shall all ' of us be contemporaries, and make...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1805 - 320 pages
...country, and live in the page of history. . ;.. : The beautiful ideas of Addison came into my mind—" When " I see kings lying by those who deposed them...consider .that " great day when we shall all of us be cotemporaries, and make " our appearance together." r As we crossed the church-yard, to return to the...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 pages
...contests and disputes ; I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...contemporaries, and make our appearance together*." Equally striking and appropriate is the style of Addison, when employed on subjects whose gaiety and...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...contests and disputes ; I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...be contemporaries, and make our appearance together *." Equally striking and appropriate is the style of Addison, when employed on subjects whose gaiety...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 pages
...their contests and disputes, I re" fleet with sorrow and astonishment on the little competi" tions and debates of mankind ; when I read the several dates...consider that great day when we " shall all of us be cotemporaries, and make our appearance " together." As we crossed the church-yard to return to the...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1805 - 314 pages
...disputes, I reflect with sorrow and " astonishment on the little competitions and debates of mankind. u When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some...consider that " great day when we shall all of us be cotemporaries, and make a our appearance together." As we crossed the church-yard, to return to the...
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A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions, Historical ..., Volume 1

1806 - 284 pages
...contests and disputes ; I reflect, with sorrow and astonishment, on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates...consider that great day, when we shall all of us be contem-. poraries, and make our appearance together." XVI CHURCH OF SAN SALVADOR, OVIEDO. AT the entrance...
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