 When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see...  The Journal of Education for Upper Canada - Page 1681854Full view - About this book
 | T Nixon - 1806 - 176 pages
...of death. Solomon the wisest died, Absalom the beauty of /srae/died, and Sampson the strongest died. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the ranity of grieving for those whom we must quick. Jy... | |
 | Collection - 1806 - 286 pages
...real value, since Epictetus, the beggar, the cripple, and the slave, was the favourite of heaven. " WHEN I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those, whom they must quickly... | |
 | 1806 - 284 pages
...real value, since Epictetus, the beggar, the cripple, and the slave, was the favourite of heaven. " WHEN I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out j when I meet with the grief of parents, upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I... | |
 | John Bew - 1807 - 408 pages
...dead; nor can any thing be more just and beautiful than Mr. Addison's reflections on this subject: "When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet will) the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I consider the... | |
 | George Horne - 1808 - 320 pages
...to me for bringing them again into his remembrance, by closing this paper with a citation of them: " When I look upon the tombs" of the great, " every...tomb-stone, my heart melts with " compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents " themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for " thorn whom we mnst quickly... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...which we find in the popular authors of more modern times : •' When I look," says he, "upon the tomba of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when...out } when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 702 pages
...gorgeous language which we find in the popular authors of more modern times : " When I look," says he, "upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy...of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; whet: I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1808 - 306 pages
...look upon the tombs of the great, (says the incomparable Addison,) every emotion of envy dies within me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every...out; when I meet with the grief of parents, upon a tombReasonable, however, as these reflections are, I would call you from them awhile, in order to lead... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 424 pages
...obligation to me for bringing them again into his remembrance, by closing this paper with a citation. " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tombs of the parents, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow ; when I see kings... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...delightful one«. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.... | |
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