 A battle or a triumph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he...  The Spectator - Sivu 1511738Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1786 - 694 sivua
...ieads it. A battle or a triumph are coniunil'ires in which not one man in a mili ion is likely to he engaged; but when we fee a perfon at the point of...we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he fays or does, beeaufe we are fure that forae time or other we (hall ourfelves be in the fame melancholy... | |
 | 1796 - 622 sivua
...battle, or a triumph/ fays Mr. Addifun, ' are conjunctures in which not one jnan in a million is likoJy to be engaged ; but when we fee a perfon at the point...death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every tiling he fays or does; becaufe we are fure that fome time or other we (hall ourfelves be in the fame... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Thomas Zouch - 1796 - 640 sivua
...lamenting over . JBurydice, in Virgil's Georgics : • ** Te veniente Die, te dccedcnte canebat." gaged; but when we fee a perfon at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he fays or does; becaufe we are fure, that fome time or other, we mall ourfelves be in the fame melancholy... | |
 | 1797 - 752 sivua
...ourfehcj ourfelves perfonally and intimately inferefted. " A battle or a triumph," fays Mr. Addifon, " are conjunctures, in which not one man in a million...we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he fays or does ; becaufe we are fure thai, fome time or other, we (hall ourfclves be in the fame melancholy... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1801 - 338 sivua
...be the cafe of every one who Breads it. A. battle or a triumph are conjectures in which not one in.a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we fee a perfon at the point of death, we cannot foibear being attentive to every thing hs fays or does, beeaufe we are fure that fome time or other... | |
 | 1803 - 372 sivua
...there is no other single circumstance in the story of any person, which can possibly be the case of any one who reads it. A battle or a triumph are conjunctures...in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 sivua
...because there is no other single circumstance in the story of any person, which can possibly be the case of every one who reads it. A battle, or a triumph,...in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1807 - 514 sivua
...find ourfelves perfonally and intimately intereiled. " A battle or a tri" umph," fays Mr. Addifon, " are conjunctures, in which not one " man in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we fee a " perfen at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive " to every thing he fays or does... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 302 sivua
...is no other single circumstance in the story of any person, which can possibly be the case of <vvery one who reads it. A battle or a triumph are conjunctures...in a million is likely to be engaged; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 sivua
...story of any person, which can possibly be the case of every one who reads it. A battle or a trinmph are conjunctures in which not one man in a million is likely to be engaged ; but when we see a person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does,... | |
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