 | 1854 - 502 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. GREAT GRIEFS. — The greater and more sudden the fall, the more time it requires... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...time, saith Seneca,i 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...we ought to do : we are always complaining our days arc few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.' That noble philo i De brevitate vitae... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 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,... | |
 | 1855 - 616 pages
...Seneca has observed, "\ve have much more than we know what to do with." Our lives are spent cither in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. How important therefore that we should take up the language of Moses and pray, that the Lord... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 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,... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...complain of the shortness of time, and ye' 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 us'd in selling, than in buying... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...time, saith Seneca,1 and yet have much more than we know what to do with. ' Out lives, (says he) are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...are always complaining our days are few, and acting aa though there would be no end of them.' That noble philosopher has described our inconsistency with... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 536 pages
...shortness of time, 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 our days ar few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. 120. Brainless art : Referring... | |
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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.... 
