 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 sider
...irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot...have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language. 2. TO THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 sider
...irreistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable disii-esses of humanity. It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we pal¡ate what we cannot cure. Life may 1л engthened by care, though death cannot je ultimately defeated... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 sider
...irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity. It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palHate what we cannot cure. Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated... | |
 | James Moir - 1880 - 204 sider
...irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity. It remains that we retard what we cannot...have a natural tendency to degeneration: we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language. In hope of giving longevity... | |
 | 1881 - 578 sider
...irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses ith memory a great part even of our living beings preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language. In hope of giving longevity... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 sider
...they had in old times, and which made the country so agreeable to them. — Life. September 20, 1777. Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated. — Preface to English Dictionary. Declining life is a very awful scene. — Letter Declining Life... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 sider
...in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity ? It remains that we retard what we cannot expel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. Life may be lengthened by care, tho' death cannot be ultimately defeated ; tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to degeneration... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 sider
...irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity ? It remains that we retard what we cannot...have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language. In hope of giving longevity... | |
 | James Hay - 1899 - 378 sider
...that I once was — but the change is great." "Declining life," says Johnson, "is a very awful scene. Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated." " My fear," continues Sir Walter, " is lest the blow be not sufficient to destroy life, and that I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 sider
...irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot...have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language. In hope of giving longevitv... | |
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If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce -with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity ? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. 
