 No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditation and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the...  Select British Classics - Page 41803Full view - About this book
 | 1751 - 228 pages
...weak in the foundation, and foon fink by the faps of time. No place affords a more ftriking conviftion of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library : for who can fee the wall crouded on every fide by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditation and accurate... | |
 | 1806 - 340 pages
...see their edifices perish as they are towering to completion, and those few that for a while attract the eye of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation,...striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by. mighty volumes, the works of laborious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 424 pages
...see their edifices perish as they are towering to completion, and those few that for a while attract the eye of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation, and soon sink by the sips of time. No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 pages
...see their edifices perish as they are towering to completion, and those few that for a while attract the eye of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation,...No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanitv of human hopes, than a publick library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 pages
...see their edilices perish as they are towering to completion, and those few that for a while attract the eye of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation,...soon sink by the saps of time. No place affords a mors striking conviction of the vanitv of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 pages
...edifice* perish as they are towering to completion, pletion, and those few that for a while attract the eye of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation,...striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious... | |
 | 1810 - 462 pages
...edifices perish as they are towering to completion, pletion, and those few that for a while attract the eye of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation,...striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...edifices perish as they are towering to completion, pletion, and those few that for a while attract the' eye of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation,...sink by the saps of time. No place affords a more striding conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 346 pages
...edifices perish as they are towering to completion. and those few that for a while attract the eyes of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation,...striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 pages
...edifices perish as they are towering to completion, and those few that for a while attract the eyes of mankind, are generally weak in the foundation, and soon sink by the Baps of time. No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick... | |
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