 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 418 pages
...parliament of England " against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions -, yet it seems that in two points... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 416 pages
...parliament of England " against admitting any- such liberty at all." It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions ; yet it seems that in two points... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 pages
...the parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions ; yet it seems that in two points... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 516 pages
...mass, he had express orders from the Parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions, yet it seems that in two points... | |
 | 1828 - 488 pages
...freed the mind from dreadful apprehensions. " It is impossible," says dean Swift, " that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind." Alason on SelfKnowledge remarks, " If our hopes and joys centre in this world, it is a mortifying thought,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...mass, he had express orders from the parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all.'' It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil tu mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions, yet it seems that in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...mass, he had express orders from the parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providenee as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...Donne. DEATH. DEATH— Eternity of. Where all life dies, death live«. Milton. DEATH— not an Evil. It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Sw(ft. DEATH— Ревет of. "Fis not the Stoics' lesson got by rote, The pomp of words, and pedant... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1863 - 1030 pages
...sun, and gains his Father's house, And drinks with angels from the fount of bliss." One has said, " It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever be designed by providence as an evil to mankind." The correctness of this sentiment may be questioned... | |
 | 418 pages
...common sense and reason, even apart from revelation, teach ns that, as has been tersely put by Swift, " it is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind ? " Yet, despite the accumulated wisdom of centuries, despite thought, speech, writing, advancing civilisation,... | |
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. 
