 I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.  Granby: A Novel ... - Page 270by Thomas Henry Lister - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Haydn - 1853 - 734 pages
...read of Erastus having been (about AD 60) bishop of Paneus, which is another name for Dan. " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, ' Tis all barren ' — and so it is ; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers." —... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. — Addison. OBSERVATION. — I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren — and so it is ; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. —... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...experiment has kept my senses, and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "Tis all barren — And so it is ; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1855 - 448 pages
...experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren; — and so it is: and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare,... | |
 | 1856 - 372 pages
...pounds ; in ten years to more than a sixtk part of our circulating coin. — Johnson. MXCVIL I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren— and so it is ; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it cf. ers. — Sterne.... | |
 | 1856 - 600 pages
...experiment has kept my senses, and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, " 'tis all barren." And so it is : and so is all the world, to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers. " I declare,"... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pages
...pounds ; in ten years to more than a sixtli part of our circulating coin. — Johnson. MXCVII. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'tis all barren — and so it is ; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it cfiers. —... | |
 | 1857 - 758 pages
...Symptoms of Distress— The River— The Long Flat —Tim Salmon Poachers — Their Fate. " I hate the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry 'Tis all barr en." — STERNE. SOME years ago, it matters not how many, I was one of a large party assembled... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1859 - 198 pages
...rude sublimity, such as Salvator ]?osa would have made his study. " I pity the man," said Sterne, " who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry 'tis all barren ; and so it is, and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers." On the... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - 1859 - 660 pages
...a rude sublimity, such as Salvator Bosa would have made his study. "I pity the man," said Sterne, " who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry 'tis all barren ; and so it is, and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers." On the... | |
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