| Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...itself, but was modified and restrained by the latter." Example. — " We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them." »The vocal function is well exhibited in sentences of this class : the tone of utterance... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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. 11. To know by rote, is... | |
| Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...or two, at least, before the common interruptions of the morning begin. Our lives, says Seneca, 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, yet acting as though there would be no end of them: and though we, in general,... | |
| Edward Young - 1852 - 528 pages
...shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent ill doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose,...nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. 120. Brainless art : Referring... | |
| 1852 - 478 pages
...or two, at least, before the common interruptions of the morning begin. Our lives, says Seneca, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. "e are always complaining that our days are few, yet acting as though there would be no end of them... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 594 pages
...of time, saith Seneea, 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...described our inconsistency with ourselves in this particular, by all those various turns of expression nd thought which are peculiar to his writings.... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 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. TIME, ITS ESTIMATE.— -Can it be called living, to pass our lives in doing nothing... | |
| 1853 - 524 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...our days are few, and acting as though there would he no end to them. That noble philosopher has described our inconsistpncy with ourselves in this particular,... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in duing nothing at all, or in doiu? nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we...there would be no end to them. That noble philosopher lis= described our inconsistency with ourselves in this particular, hy all those various turns of expression... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 pages
...time, saith Seneca,1 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 philo1 De brevitate vitee ad Paulinum lib. peusiin. — C. 253 SPECTATOR. [No-... | |
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