 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 398 pàgines
...vanity of human life is like a river conftantly pafling away, and yet conftantly coming on. • XLI. I feldom fee a noble building, or any great piece...ambition, or to fill the idea, of an immortal foul ? U 3 XLII. It is a certain truth, that a man is never fo eafy CM" fo little impofed upon, as among... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 356 pàgines
...The vanity of human life is like a river conftantly pafling away, and yet conftantly coming on. XLI. I feldom fee a noble building, or any great piece...ambition, or to fill the idea, of an immortal foul ? XLII. It is a certain truth, that a man is never fo eafy or fo little impofed upon, as among people... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 406 pàgines
...feldom fee'a noble building, or any great piece of magnificence and pomp, but 1 think, how little ii all this to fatisfy the ambition, or to fill the idea, of an immortal foul ? .. XL II. IT is a certain truth, that a man is never fo eafy or Co little impofed upon, as among... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1760 - 236 pàgines
...The vanity of human life is like a river conftantly palling away, and yet conftantly coming on. XLI. I feldom fee a noble building, or any great piece...ambition, or to fill the idea, of an immortal foul? XLH. It is a certain truth, that a man is never fo eafy or fo little impofed upon, as among people... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 392 pàgines
...life i.« like a river,conftantly paffiiig away, and yet coniiantly coming on. XLI.. Ifeldbm fee » noble building^ or any great piece of magnificence and pomp, but I think how little is all this to fitisfy the ambition, or to fill the idea of an immortal foul! XLII.. It is a certain truth,, that... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 352 pàgines
...The Vanity of human life is like a river conftantly pafling away, and yet conftantly coming on. XLI. I feldom fee a noble building, or any great piece of magnificence arid pomp, but I think, how little is all this to fatisfy the ambition, or to fill the idea, of an... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 348 pàgines
...The vanity of human life is like a river, conftantly paffing away, and yet conftantly coming on. XLI. I feldom fee a noble building, or any great piece...magnificence and pomp, but I think how little is all this to lutisfy the ambition, or to fill the idea of an immortal foul ! XLII. It is a certain truth, that a... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1777 - 348 pàgines
...the clofe of this is folemn : " I feldom fee a noble building, or any great piece of magni" ficence and pomp, but I think how little is all this to fatisfy...ambition, or to fill the idea of an immortal foul." A fentence is beautifully conftructed when there is a climax in the length of the words ; and a period,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1777 - 588 pàgines
...this the following pafTage will fervd for an example: " I feldom fee a noble building, or any gre.it piece •• of magnificence and pomp, but I think, how little is all this to fa" tisfy the ambition, or to fill the idia, of an immortal foul." Pray, what addition does the phrafe... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1781 - 412 pàgines
...*' would be as much generosity [ if he were a *' rich man | ." And the clofe of this is folemn ; " I feldom fee a noble building, or any great ^ piece of magnificence and pomp, but I think " how " how little is all this to fatisfy the ambition, or " to fill the idea of an Immortal foul." A fentence... | |
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I seldom see a noble building, or any great piece of magnificence and pomp ; but I think how little is all this to satisfy the ambition, or to fill the idea, of an immortal soul... 
