| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it, the divineness of souls excepted, will not seem much other than an ant-hill, where some ants...go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it, the divineness of souls excepted, will not seem much other than an ant-hill, where some ants...go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...divineness of souls excepted, will not seem much other than an ant-hill, where some ants carry corn,.and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it (the divineness of souls excepted) will not seem much other than an ant-hill, where some ants...go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. ' It taketh away or mitig-ateth fear of death, or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it (the divineness of souls excepted) will not seem much other than an ant-hill, where some ants...go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments of virtue and imperfections of manners.... | |
| Sir Charles Bell - 1819 - 106 pages
...his thoughts to a painful sense of his own littleness: to him " the earth, with men " upon it, will not seem much other than an " ant-hill, where some...empty, " and all to and fro, a little heap of dust *." He is afraid to think himself an object of Divine care. But when he minutely regards the structure... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it, the divincness of souls excepted, will not seem much other than an ant-hill, where some ants...go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...upon the universal frame of nature, the earth with men upon it, the divineness of souls excepted, will not seem much other than an ant-hill, where some ants...go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...the universal frame of nature, the earth with, men upon it, the divineness of souls excepted, will not seem much other than an ant-hill, where some ants...go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away 01 mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...with men upon it, the divineness of souls except, will not seem much other than an ant-hill, where as some ants carry corn, and some carry their young,...empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust." (a) .With the duties of the office he was well acquainted. As a politician he never omitted an opportunity... | |
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