 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - 526 Seiten
...inflection before, and the falling inflection after it.* EXAMPLES. (a.) We are always complaining that oar days are few', and acting as though there would be no end* of them. Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's' eye, but perceivest not the beam that... | |
 | 1869 - 414 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, or in doing what we ought not to do ; we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 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 always complaining our days are few, and acting aa though there would be no end of them.' That noble phik sopher has described our inconsistency with... | |
 | 1870 - 956 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. — Seneca. TIME. — An... | |
 | David Thomas - 1870 - 396 Seiten
...shortness of time, and yet we have 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.'" Alfred the Great was one... | |
 | 1870 - 858 Seiten
...shortness of time ; and yet we have 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, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We aro always complaining that our days arc few, and acting as though there would bo no end of them."... | |
 | 1884 - 794 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, or in doing nothing that we ought to do; we i;re always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - 422 Seiten
...— I. There is a wondrous fitness in Christ's character, to meet the condition of sinners. Put on purpose, or in doing 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.'' — Soneca. t /. Panant.... | |
 | 1873 - 46 Seiten
...have much more than we know what to do with.' Our lives are spent either in doing nothing ;it a 11 , or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do ; we are always complaining that our days are few, and acting u though there would be no end of them. — Senic*. A WAWT 'of occupation... | |
 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 Seiten
...FlightofTime. time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing 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. It was said by Seneca :... | |
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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.... 
