 | 1797 - 110 pages
...it confifted of threefcore and ten entire arches, with feveral broken arches, which, added to thofe that were entire, made up the number about an hundred....I was counting the arches, the genius told me that the bridge confifted at firft of a thoufand arches; but that a great flood fwept away the reft, and... | |
 | 1797 - 680 pages
...arches, with feveral broken arches, which, added to thofe that were entire, made up the nuniberabout an hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge confifted at firft of a thoufand arckcs; but that a great Hood Avept a way the reit, and left the bridge... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 364 pages
...threescore and ten intire arches, with feveral brolcen arches, 'which added to thofe that were intire, made up the number about an hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge conGfted at firft of a thoufand arches ; but that a great flood fwept away the reft, and left the bridge... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life : consider it attentively. Upon a more...to those that were entire made up the number about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 322 pages
...I see a bridge," said I, " standing in the midst of the tide." " The bridge thou seest," said he, " is human life, consider it attentively." Upon a more...about an hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genins told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches : but that a great flood swept... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...it. I see a hridge, aaid J, standing in the midst of the tide. The hridge thim „-•-', said he, is human life, consider it attentively. Upon a more...consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with severai hroken arches, which, added to thuse that were entire, made up the numher ahmit an hundred.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 322 pages
...see a bridge,"' said I, " standing in the midst of the tide." " The• bridge thou seest," said he, " is human life, consider it attentively." Upon a more leisurely survey of it, 1 found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 312 pages
...it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it,I found that it consisted of threescore and ten arches, with several broken arches, which, added to...that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand ^ No. 159. THE SPECTATOR. 15.7 arches, bul that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1811 - 606 pages
...discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, sakl he, is human life; consider it attentively. Upon a more...to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...see a bridge,' said I, 'standing in the midst of the tide.' — '-The bridge thon seest,' said he, ' is human life ; consider it attentively.' Upon a more...it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten en tire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number... | |
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Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. 
