 The following question is started by one of the schoolmen : — Supposing the whole body of the earth were a great ball or mass of the finest sand, and that a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years : Supposing...  Gurney Married: A Sequel to Gilbert Burney - Seite 162von Theodore Edward Hook - 1839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 Seiten
...a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years. Supposing then "that you had it in your choice to be happy all the...until there was not a grain: of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after; or supposing that you might be happy for ever after, on condition... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 562 Seiten
...a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years. Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the...until there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ; or supposing that you might be happy for ever after, on condition... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 564 Seiten
...a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years. Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the...consuming by this slow method, until there Was not a grain or it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ; or supposing that you might be happy... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...grain or particle of this sand 'should be annihilated every thousand years ? — -Supposing, then, that you 'had it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mast of sand was consuming by this slow method, until there was not a grain left, on condition that... | |
 | Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - 1816 - 336 Seiten
...single grain, or particle of this sand, should be annihilated every thousand years ; supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mass was consuming, by this slow method, till there was not a grain of it left, on condition that you were... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 Seiten
...a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years : Supposing then that you -had it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mans of sand was consuming by this slow method till there was not a grain of it left, on condition... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 Seiten
...single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years ? — Supposing, then, that you had it in your choice to be happy all the...consuming, by this slow method, until there was not a grain left, on condition that you were to be miserable forever after ? Or, supposing that you might be happy... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - 1817 - 594 Seiten
...or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years : supposing then that you hail it in your, choice to be happy all the while this...prodigious mass of sand was consuming by this slow method till there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be, miserable for ever after; or supposing... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 304 Seiten
...a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years : Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the...until there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after? Or, supposing that you might be happy for ever after on condition... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 310 Seiten
...a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years: Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the...until there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ? Or, supposing that you might be happy for ever after on condition... | |
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