| Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pages
...they are, necessarily. Horses carry us ; trees shades us ; but they know it not. Ben Johnson. lEATH. It is impossible that anything, so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Dean Swift. Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can resolution fetch From flowery tenderness ?... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1873 - 406 pages
...no thing but pea>:e, the sweetest peace.' " — /. A. ¿facdvff. " It is impossible that anj thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,...should ever have been designed by Providence as an evilto mankind.' Swift. "Death has a deep meaning and many issues. We cannot by our searching find... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men. SIR R. STEELE: Spectator, No. 133. It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. SWIFT. Take away but the pomps of death, the disguises and solemn bugbears, and the actings by candlelight,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men. SIR R. STEELE: Spectator, No. 133. es is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred SWIFT. Take away but the pomps of death, the disguises and solemn bugbears, and the actings by candlelight,... | |
| 1880 - 658 pages
...the people that worshipped them. — Monthly Review. DEATH HAS ALWAYS BEEN NATURAL AND NECESSARY. — It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. — Dean Swift. No. 117.— Vol. III. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1880. All Communications for " Morning Light"... | |
| Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 pages
...have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies mouldering before him ? — WASHINGTON IRVING. It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. — SWIFT. Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 502 pages
...mass, he had express orders from the Parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions, yet it seems that in two points... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 514 pages
...mass, he had express orders from the Parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions, yet it seems that in two points... | |
| Alice Crowther - 1883 - 174 pages
...physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. — Colton. It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. — Swift. Nothing so soon reconciles us to the thought of our own death as the prospect of one friend... | |
| William Walters - 1883 - 208 pages
...GOD ; and will fall out according to His infinite wisdom and love. " It is impossible," says SWIFT, " that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind." It is in GOD'S hands. If we trust Him, He will manage our dying experiences, just as He has managed... | |
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