 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
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 328 Seiten
...compared with eternity ! On such a supposition, the Schoolmen started 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 forever after ; — or,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 Seiten
...should be annihilated every thousand years? Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be nappy all the while this prodigious mass of sand was consuming...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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 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 for ever after ? Or, supposing that you might be happy... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 326 Seiten
...compared with eternity ! 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 forever after ; — or,... | |
 | 1841 - 282 Seiten
...particle of this land should be annihilated every thousand years. Supposing then that you had it iu your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious...until there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ; or supposirg that you might be happy for ever after, on Condition... | |
 | 1841 - 272 Seiten
...a single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years. Supporing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mass of snnd was consuming, by this slow method, until there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were... | |
 | 1843 - 414 Seiten
...or particle of this sand, should be annihilated every thousand years : supposing then, that you had 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,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - 752 Seiten
...! On such a supposition the Schoolmen stated the following question. " Suppose that you had it J£ your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mass of sand was consuming, by this slovv method, tfll there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable forever... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 Seiten
...compared with eternity ! On such a supposition, the Schoolmen stated the following question. " Suppose that you had it in your choice to be happy all the...this prodigious mass of sand was consuming, by this «low method, till there was not a grain of it ten, on condition you were to 1« miserable for ever... | |
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