 This secret horror of the last is inseparable from a thinking being whose life is limited,, and to whom death is dreadful. We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that life itself...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 405by Samuel Johnson - 1801Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...essay is now before him. This secret horror of the last is inseparable from a thinking being whose life is limited and to whom death is dreadful. We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 pages
...thinking being, whose life is limited, and to whom death is dreadful.2 We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that life itself has likewise its termination ; when we have done any thing for the last time, we involuntarily... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 316 pages
...thinking being, whose life is limited, and to whom death is dreadful.2 We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that life itself has likewise its termination ; when we have done any thing for the last time, we involuntarily... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1900 - 548 pages
...essay is now before him. This secret horror of the last is inseparable from a thinking being, whose life is limited, and to whom, death is dreadful. We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 294 pages
...feeling described, etc. " The secret horrour of the last is inseparable from a thinking being, whose life is limited, and to whom death is dreadful. . . . We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that... | |
 | 1896 - 728 pages
...essay is now before him. This secret horror of the last is inseparable from a thinking being, whose life is limited, and to whom death is dreadful. We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole : the termination of any period of life reminds us that... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pages
...simplicity of the language. The secret horror of the last is inseparable from a thinking being whose life is limited and to whom death is dreadful. We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 pages
...last essay is before him. The secret horror of the last is inseparable from a thinking being, whose life is limited, and to whom death is dreadful. We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pages
...thinking being whose life is limited, and to whom •death is dreadful. We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that life itself has likewise its termination ; when we have done any thing for the last time, we involuntarily... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pages
...essay is now before him. This secret horrour of the last is inseparable from a thinking being whose life is limited, and to whom death is dreadful. We always make a secret comparison between a part and the whole ; the termination of any period of life reminds us that... | |
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