 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...— agreeable, and an inferior — acceptable. 13. Seneca declares that we spend our lives, 6ither in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought-to-do. 14. I am persuaded — that neither death nor life ; nor angels, nor principalities, nor... | |
 | 1826 - 82 pages
...other, so us to farm an antithesis, the first part must terminate with the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. We. are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there should be no end of them. Spectator, No 93 1 imagined lliut I was admitted into a long, spacious gallery,... | |
 | 1828 - 394 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pages
...of owe, saith Seneca, and yet have mdch more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says be, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...complaining our days are few, and acting as though there wonld be no end- of them. That noble philosopher has described our inconsistency with ourselves in... | |
 | 1828 - 844 pages
...have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them." A contemporary political writer makes the following just remarks on the deplorable state... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pages
...pause but one in a sentence, and the falling slide at the end of it. Our lives, says Seneca, consist either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing...purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. 11. When negation is opposed to affirmation, the former has the rising, and the latter the falling... | |
 | 846 pages
...have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining oar days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them." not th« eyei of Ms victim,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 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...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. — Seneca. CXLI. In little trades more cheats and lying Are used in selling, than in buying;... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 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...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. — Seneca. CXLL In little trades more cheats and lying Are used in selling, than in buying;... | |
 | 1831 - 418 pages
...time, (says Seneca,) and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the...nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that pur days are few, and acting as though there would be It was a memorable practice of Vespasian,... | |
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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.... 
