 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 Seiten
...shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose,...nothing that we ought to do ; we are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. 11. To know by rote, is... | |
 | Edward Young - 1852 - 528 Seiten
...of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent ill doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose,...nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. 120. Brainless art : Referring... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 Seiten
...before the common interruptions of the morning begin. Our lives, says Seneca, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose,...nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, yet acting as though there would be no end of them: and though we, in general,... | |
 | 1852 - 478 Seiten
...before the common interruptions of the morning begin. Our lives, says Seneca, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. "e are always complaining that our days are few, yet acting as though there would be no end of them... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 Seiten
...and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose,...inconsistency with ourselves in this particular, by all those various turns of expression nd thought which are peculiar to his writings. I often consider mankind... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose,...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. — Seneca. TIME, ITS ESTIMATE.— -Can it be called living, to pass our lives in doing nothing... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 Seiten
...we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in duing nothing at all, or in doiu? nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we...there would be no end to them. That noble philosopher lis= described our inconsistency with ourselves in this particular, hy all those various turns of expression... | |
 | 1853 - 524 Seiten
...and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose,...our days are few, and acting as though there would he no end to them. That noble philosopher has described our inconsistpncy with ourselves in this particular,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 Seiten
...and yet have much more than we know what to do with. ' Our lives, (says he) are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose,...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.' That noble philo1 De brevitate vitee ad Paulinum lib. peusiin. — C. 253 SPECTATOR. [No-... | |
 | 1854 - 502 Seiten
...shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose,...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. — Seneca. GREAT GRIEFS. — The greater and more sudden the fall, the more time it requires... | |
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WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do.... 
