 Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...  The Rambler - Page 440by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | John S. Skinner - 1829 - 436 pages
...te is approaching dissolution; may rant in pleasure's ring, heedless of religion and its laws— but piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hop-s, as lie declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows perpetually crowding upon him,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure , tor the most part, sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pages
...faithfully," returned the nobleman. " So can I," was the laconic, and severe answer of the king. AGE. PIETY is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hope, as be declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...faithfully," returned the nobleman. " So can I," was the laconic, and severe answer of the king. AGE. PIETY is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hope, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls... | |
 | 1835 - 538 pages
...be said that these are the same thing, for a state of progress is not a state of attainment. DANBY. PIETY is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection... | |
 | 1835 - 542 pages
...said that these are the same thing, for a slate of progress is not a state of attainment. DANBY. PIKTY is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorroxvs incessantly crowding upon him, fulls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure ore quickly recollected ; and tho future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted; all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected; and the future lies beyond...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected; and the future lies beyond...the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. fie that grows old without rcKîious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...good man dreads for its profaneness, and a witty man disdains for its easiness and vulgarity. VIII. PIETY is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection... | |
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