 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
 | 1856 - 374 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 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...prodigious mass of sand was consuming, by this slow method, uutil there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ; or supposing... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 Seiten
...particle of this uan4 vot. vi. — 27* should be annihilated every thousand years. Supposing then tfaa'. you had it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigiona mass of sand was consuming by this slow method till there wi• not a grain of it left,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 Seiten
...compared with eternity f On such a supposition, the Schoolmen stated the following question. "Suppose that you had it in your choice to be happy all the...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.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 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...slow method until there was not a grain of it left, <*n condition you were to be miserable for ever after? Or, supposing that you might be happy for ever... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 688 Seiten
...shall not be disappointed of our hope. should be annihilated every thousand years. Supposing then thai you had it in your choice to be happy all the while...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 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 prodiS'ous mass of sand was consuming by this slow method, till there was not a grain of it left, on... | |
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