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" When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and... "
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - Page 284
by Joseph Addison - 1888
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Instructive Rambles: In London, and the Adjacent Villages. Designed to Amuse ...

Elizabeth Helme - 1800 - 314 pages
...reflect with sorrow and asto••* riishment on the little competitions, fac• tions, and disputes of mankind: when ' I read the several dates of the...some that died yesterday, and some •* six hundred years ago — I consider that '* great day, when we shall all of us be ' contemporaries, and .make...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

1803 - 420 pages
...parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider...of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we sJiall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

1803 - 434 pages
...parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider...of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we, shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance...
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The letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero to several of his friends ..., Volume 3

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1804 - 450 pages
...themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving " for those whom we must quickly follow ; when I see kings "lying by those who deposed them; when I consider...world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sor' row and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, ' and debates of mankind. When I read...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them; when I consider...of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pages
...parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them ; when I consider...of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1805 - 320 pages
...live in the page of history. . ;.. : The beautiful ideas of Addison came into my mind—" When " I see kings lying by those who deposed them ; when I consider...sorrow and " astonishment on the little competitions and debates of mankind. " When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died " yesterday,...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 pages
...and live in the page of history. The beautiful ideas of Addison came into my mind — " When I see kings lying by those who deposed them ; when " I consider...divided the world with their contests and disputes, I re" fleet with sorrow and astonishment on the little competi" tions and debates of mankind ; when I...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ...

Sir John Carr - 1805 - 314 pages
...disputes, I reflect with sorrow and " astonishment on the little competitions and debates of mankind. u When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died " yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that " great day when we shall all of us be cotemporaries, and make a our appearance...
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A collection of epitaphs and monumental inscriptions, Volume 1

Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those, whom they must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who deposed them ; when I consider...of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider dial. great day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance...
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