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
| Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 pages
...for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public. 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... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 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...only proper and adequate relief of decaying man." — Rambler, No. 69. 1 Pisislrotus, tyrant of Athens, reigned thirty-three years, and died about BC... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1870 - 420 pages
...the ruin of the public. the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; and the future Ties "beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by...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... | |
| E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...it evinces that there is a glorious summer approaching. — tircker. Absence of Eeligious Hopes. — Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying...as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon himfulls, into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection... | |
| Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 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...where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. /.MOBILITY. A WISE and good man is never so amiable as in his unbended and familiar intervals. Heroic... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 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...where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. DR. S. JOHNSON: Rambler, No. 69. An old Greek epigrammatist, intending to show the miseries that attend... | |
| Maxims - 1876 - 338 pages
...mistake the love for the practice of virtue, and are not so much good men as the friends of goodness. 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... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1880 - 410 pages
...8. Chandler, iv. 461; Dr. N. Lardner, x. 171 ; Dr. W.Dodd,il; Dr. E. Payson, iii. 480. d Dr. Guise. "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... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...the past is very soon exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure DR. S. JOHNSON: Rambler, No. 69. An old Greek epigrammatist, intending to show the miseries that attend... | |
| 1891 - 556 pages
...which effloresce« on the countenance, the manner, and the outward path. Chalmeri. THE ONLY RELIEF. 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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