 The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the deaths of eminent persons, and of their behaviour in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history...  The New Parley Library ... - Side 3031844Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1803 - 412 sider
...thinking any thing in this life worth pursuing, w'Mch had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in historv which affect and please the reader in so sensible a manner. The reason I take... | |
 | 1803 - 372 sider
...thinking any thing in this life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...persons, and of their behaviour in that dreadful season. 1 may also add, that there are no parts in history which affect and please- the reader in so sensible... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 sider
...upwards of ninety. His *. " There is nothing in history," says this elegant writer in another place, " which is so improving to the reader as those accounts...deaths of eminent persons, and of their behaviour *f at that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts "in history, which affect .and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 sider
...thinking any thing in this life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history which affect and please the reader in so sensible a manner. The reason I take... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 sider
...any thing in this life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. VOL. x. Q The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history which affect and please the reader in so sensible a manner. The reason I take... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 sider
...soul:—" If it be a dream, let me enjoy it; since it makes me both the happier and the better man." (5) " There is nothing in history, which is so improving...to the reader as those accounts which we meet with ot the deaths ol" eminent persons, and of their behaviour at that dreadful season." C . EXAMPLES OF... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 sider
...thinking any thing in this life worth pursuing which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...with of the deaths of eminent persons, and of their behavior in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history which, N 2 affect... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 sider
...Spectator, No. 186'. t " There is nothing in history," says this elegant writer in another place, " which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the deaths of einiuenl persons, and 'of their behaviour at that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 sider
...thinking any thing in this life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving...in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history which alfect and please the reader in so sensible a manner. The reason I take... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1812 - 332 sider
...end could be like 121. "There is nothing in history," said Addison, seven years before his death* " which is so improving to the reader, as " those accounts...that dreadful season. I may " also add, that there are no parts in history, " which affect and please the reader in so " sensible a manner. The reason... | |
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