To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts ; and then their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship ; their enterprises, their... The Gentle Life: Essays in Aid of the Formation of Character - Page 4by James Hain Friswell - 1866 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Henry Newman - 1865 - 448 pages
...the world is nothing else than the prophet's scroll, full of " lamentations, and mourning, and woe." To consider the world in its length and breadth, its...their mutual alienation, their conflicts ; and then M their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship ; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1883 - 438 pages
...the world is nothing else than the prophet's scroll, full of lamentation, and mourning, and woe. ' To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of men, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts; and then their ways, habits,... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1875 - 420 pages
...the world is nothing else than the prophet's scroll, full of " lamentations, and mourning, and woe." To consider the world in its length and breadth, its...their mutual alienation, their conflicts ; and then 11 their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship ; their enterprises, their aimless courses, their... | |
| 1876 - 590 pages
...sentences in the English language. 1 Robert Browning, Dramatis Personce : ' Gold Hair, a Legend of Pornic.' 'To consider the world in its length and breadth,...the many races of man, their starts, their fortunes, theirmutual alienation, their conflicts ; and then their ways, habits, governments, forms of worship... | |
| John Edward Kempe - 1877 - 394 pages
...time, as subtle and deep as Pascal, has, without thinking of Pascal, expressed Pascal's thought : — " To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of men, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts ; and then their ways,... | |
| Henry Hamlet Dobney - 1878 - 272 pages
...of the world is nothing else than the prophet's scroll, full of lamentations and mourning and woe. "To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of men, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienations, their conflicts, their enterprises, their... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1879 - 428 pages
...nothing else than the prophet's . scroll, full of " lamentations, and mourning, and woe." S . \(^C ' To consider the world in its length and breadth, its...achievements and acquirements, the impotent conclusion of iding facts, the tokens so faint and broken of a ^\ r*p;<-,ffltluperin tending design, the blind evolution... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1880 - 56 pages
...from quoting all this fine passage, if it be only for the sake of its lame and shallow deduction. " To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history and the many races of men, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts,... | |
| 1881 - 858 pages
...of the world is nothing else than the prophet's scroll, full of lamentations, and mourning, and woe. "To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of men, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts ; and then their ways,... | |
| Ernest Faulkner Brown - 1881 - 86 pages
...mother conceived me." Let me sum up this portion of the argument in the weighty words of Dr. Newman: " To consider the world in its length and breadth, its various history, the many races of men, their starts, their fortunes, their mutual alienation, their conflicts; and then their ways, habits,... | |
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