 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 Gurney - Seite 68von Theodore Edward Hook - 1838Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 Seiten
...grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years. Supposing then that you liad it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mass of sand was consuming by Ihis slow method, uutil there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for... | |
 | 1851 - 448 Seiten
...single grain or particle of this sand should be annihilated every thousand years. Supposing, then, that 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 supposing that yon might be happy for ever after, on condition... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 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 forever after ; or supposing that you might be happy forever after, on condition... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 Seiten
...particle of this sand should be annihilated evejy thousand years ; supposing that you had it in your power to be happy all the while this prodigious mass of...this slow method, until there was not a grain of it 16ft, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ; or, that you were to be happy for ever... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 Seiten
...sand VOL. vi. — 27* 634 SPECTATOR. [Na5T! 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 waa not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after; or, supposing... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 Seiten
...VOL. v. — 27* 634 SPECTATOR. [Na 575. 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 - 1854 - 698 Seiten
...or particle of this sand VOL. v. — 27* 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... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1855 - 414 Seiten
...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...ever after ; or supposing that you might be happy forever after on condition you would be miserable till the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated,... | |
 | 1855 - 528 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... | |
 | Henry Kirke White - 1855 - 408 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... | |
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