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" When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together. "
The Gleaner: A Series of Periodical Essays - Page 236
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An historical description of Westminster-abbey, its monuments and curiosities

Westminster abbey - 1841 - 214 pages
...herein recorded, in a religious sense ; for, as the great Mr. Addison observes, " when we read the dates of the tombs of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, we cannot help considering that great day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our...
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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and genti clamore Cithferon, Taygctique canes Piitf-....felicity consists in action. Every Ȁ 0 C. No. 27.] Saturday, March 31, 1711. ITt nn\- loiiL'.-i. quibus mcntitur arnica, diesque Lonpa videtur...
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A Trip Home; with Some Home-spun Yarns

Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...objects which others consider with terror. " When I read in Westminster Abbey the several dates upon the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six...contemporaries and make our appearance together." Upon the present occasion I came upon the churchyard unintentionally and unexpectedly, as I was wending...
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The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific ..., Volume 60

Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1910 - 492 pages
...or the holy men that divided ihe world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,...When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some thai died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great < ;y when we shall all of...
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How to Read and Declaim

Grenville Kleiser - 1911 - 462 pages
...or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. "The Spectator." JOSEPH ADDISON. 4. I stand alone upon the peaceful summit of this hill, and turn in every...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. No. 34. MONDAY, APRIL o, 1711 — • parcit Cognatis maculis similis fera. — Juv. The club of which...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. No. 34. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1711 — parcit Cognatis maculis similisfcra. — Juv. The club of which I...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. No. 34. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1711 — parcit Cognatis maculis similisfera. — Juv. The club of which I...
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Thackeray's English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 278 pages
...on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. And when I read the several dates on the tombs of some that died yesterday, and some six...all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance 2 together." Our third humorist comes to speak upon the same subject. You will have observed in the...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions,...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. J. ADDISON. — Spectator, No. 26. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE THERE is no place in the town which I so much...
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