 | 1864 - 868 pages
...complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to. do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. So wrote Seneca hundreds... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 pages
...to form an antithesis, the first part must always terminate with the rising inflee* tiou. EXAMPLES. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there should be no end of them. Spectator, No. 93. I imagined that I was admitted into a long spacious gallery,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...invida Alt/is : carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. . Hon. to do with. ' Our lives, (says he) are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.' That noble philosopher has described our inconsistency with ourselves in this particular,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. ' Our lives, (says he) are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.' That noble philosopher has described our inconsistency with ourselves in this particular,... | |
 | Robert May - 1812 - 280 pages
...and yet we have much more than we know what to do with ; our days are either spent in doing no. thing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose ; or in doing that which we ought not to do," take away the time that has been lost or wasted, and the time spent... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 pages
...time, TT saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...ought to do : we are always complaining our days are tew, and acting as "though there would be no end to them. That noble philosopher has described our... | |
 | George Fulton - 1814 - 452 pages
...sense; ai, " Our lives, says Stneca, are spent — either in doing nothing at all', or in doing nuthing to the pur'pose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do." . • RULES. I. Every period, whether direct or inverted, requires the rising inflexion on the accenwl... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...of time, says Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. That noble philosopher has described our inconsistency with ourselves in this particular,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...doing nothing at all, or doing nothing to the purpate, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We ace always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would ic no cod of them. That noble philosopher hai described our inconsistency with ourselves in this particular... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. That noble philosopher has described our inconsistency with ourselves in this particular,... | |
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WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do.... 
