 As if the natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling accidents, as from real evils. I have known...  The National Magazine - Page 84edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1739 - 334 pages
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 | 1773 - 394 pages
...were not fufficient for it, we turn the moft indifferent circumftances into misfortunes, and fuffer as much from trifling accidents, as from real evils. I have known the fhooting of a ftar fpoil a night's reft; and have feen a man in love grow pale and lofe his appetite,... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...were not fufficient for it, we turn the moft indifferent circumflances into misfortunes, and fuffer as much from trifling accidents, as from real evils. I have known the fhooting of a ftar fpoil a night's reft j and have feen a man in love grow pale, and lofe his appetite,... | |
 | 1803 - 454 pages
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 | 1803 - 420 pages
...the natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling...pale and lose -his appetite upon the plucking of a merry thought. A screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers ; nay, the... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pages
...indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling accidents as from reul evils. I have known the shooting of a star spoil a...pale and lose his appetite upon the plucking of a merry thought. A screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers ; nay, the... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...indifferent cireumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling accidents as from rest evil.M. I have known the shooting of a star spoil a night's...his appetite, upon the plucking of a merrythought. A sereech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers; nay, the voice of a ericket... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...superstition: it hath ever imposed the most abject kind of slavery. I have known (says the Spectator) the shooting of a star spoil a night's rest, and have...pale, and lose his appetite upon the plucking of a merry thought. A screech owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers, and the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 pages
...the natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling...screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers ; nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...ferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer it much from triffing accidents, as from real evils. 1 have known the shooting of a star spoil a night's rest; and have seen a man in love grow pale and luse hii appetite, upon the plucking of a merry-thonght. A screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family... | |
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