Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities,... Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin - Page 45by sir Thomas Browne - 1852Full view - About this book
| Rhoda Broughton - 1877 - 234 pages
...consistency no greater than a gossamer ; sometimes as substantial as a stout cambric handkerchief. " We slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest...extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves." Often we are inclined to pule and, whimper over the weakness of our memories, but who would accept... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...that famous prince was extant. 3 The character of death, 4 Gruteri Inscriptions Antiquce, Darknesrf and light divide the course of time, and oblivion...felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave out short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...contrariety of vice unto nature, and resist some by the antidote of thy temper. Christian Morals. OUUVIOJT. globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in n great part even of our living beings. W« slightly remember our felicities, und the smartest strokes... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...contrariety of vice unto nature, and resist some by the antidote of thy temper. Christian Morals. OBLIVION. nance, n great part even of our living beings. Wo slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...God.1 2. OBLIVION, THE CONDITION OF LIFE. (FROM " HYDRIOTAPHIA (UBS BUBIJU,)," PUBLISHED IN 1658.) DARKNESS and light divide the course of time, and...short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities (ie has a limit to its power of endurance], and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones... | |
| 1881 - 578 pages
...old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; — diutnrnity is a dream and folly of expectation. or those nociambvlos and night-walkers, though in their cndureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...that shall live. The night of time far surpaseeth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? . . . Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries arc slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy stupidity. . . . The... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? . . . Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense cndureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? . . . Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a Rreat part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes... | |
| Sir Arthur Helps - 1885 - 590 pages
...day administered, does more than all the skill of the physician-moralists. Sir Thomas Browne says : "Darkness and light divide the course of time, and...destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are tables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding,... | |
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