 Let us only, if you please, to take leave of this subject, reflect, upon this occasion, on the vanity and transient glory of all this habitable world ; how, by the force of one element breaking loose upon the rest, all the varieties of nature, all the...  Views of the Creation - Page 1751822 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 pages
...p. 610. fN° 146. «* ble world : HQW by tfye force of one element «' breaking loofe upon the reft, all the varieties « of nature, all the works of art, all the la?' hours of men, are reduced to nothing. AH " that we admired and adored before as great " and magnificent,... | |
 | Leclerc de Sept-Chênes - 1788 - 362 pages
...Ancients, as we may judge by the following paflage : " Let us reflect on the vanity and tranfient " glory of all this habitable world ; how, by the " force of one element breaking loofe upon " the reft, all the varieties of nature, all the " works of art, all the labours of men,... | |
 | 1794 - 450 pages
...this subject, reflect upon this occasion on the vanity and VOL. in. H transient transient glory of this habitable world. How by the force of one element...of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men are reduced to nothing. .All that we admired and adored before as great and magnificent, is obliterated... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 518 pages
...transient glory of this habitable world has well been compared to vanity. How clearly we perceive that by. the force of one element breaking loose upon the...of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing ; all that we admired and adored before, as great and magnificent, is obliterated... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1794 - 426 pages
...glory of this ha" bitable world. How, by the force of one " element breaking loofe upon the reft,' all " the varieties of nature, all the works of " art, all the labours of men, are reduced " to nothing. All that we admired and " adored before, as great and magnificent, "... | |
 | George Horne - 1794 - 416 pages
...glory of this ha«« bitable world. How, by the force of one <« element breaking loofe upon the reft, all " the varieties of nature, all the works of " art, all the labours of men, are reduced " to nothing. All that we admired and " adored before, as great and magnificent, "... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1797 - 604 pages
...tranfient glory of this habitable world. How, by the force of one element breaking loofe upon the reft, all the varieties of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing. All that we admired and adored before as great and magnificent, is obliterated... | |
 | Mr. Addison - 1797 - 842 pages
...tranfient glory of this habitable world. How, by the force of one element breaking loofe upon the reft, all the varieties of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing. All that we admired and adored before as great and magnificent, is obliterated... | |
 | William Smith - 1803 - 528 pages
...nothing— all the delusive vanities, as well as the transient glories, of this habitable world— all the varieties of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of man, all that was once admired, and almost half adored, as great and magnificent—Where are they? They... | |
 | William Smith - 1803 - 492 pages
...nothing— all the delusive vanities, as well as the transient glories, of this habitable world—all the varieties of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of man, all that was once admired, and almost half adored, as great and magnificent—Where are they? They... | |
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