OF TIME'S CONTINUAL -SPEED. IN all the actions which a man performs, some part of his life passes. We die while doing that, for which alone, our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, time keeps his constant pace, and flies as fast in idleness... Gleason's Monthly Companion - Sida 1421880Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Owen Felltham - 1820 - 546 sidor
...a man performs, some part of his life passes. We die while doing that, for which alone, our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, time...pace, and flies as fast in idleness as in employment. Whether we play or labour^ or sleep or dance or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour... | |
| Owen Felltham - 1820 - 552 sidor
...a man performs, some part of his life passes. We die while doing that, for which alone, our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, time...pace, and flies as fast in idleness as in employment. Whether we play or labour, or sleep or dance or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 sidor
...that a man 'performs some part of his life passes. We die with doing that for which only our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, Time...pace, and flies as fast in idleness, as in employment; whether we play, or labour, or sleep, or dance, or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour... | |
| 1833 - 814 sidor
...which a man performs, some part of his life passes. We die while doing that for which alone our sliding Whether we play or labour, or sleep, or dance, or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour... | |
| 1833 - 310 sidor
...employment. Whether we play or labour, or sleep, or dance, or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour of vice is as long as an hour of virtue. But the difference between good and bad actions is infinite. Good actions, though they diminish our time here as wellu... | |
| 1837 - 352 sidor
...that a man performs, some part of his life passeth. We die with doing that for which only our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, Time...follows upon good actions is infinite from that of ill ones. The good, though it diminishes our time here, yet it lays up a pleasure for eternity, and... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 sidor
...man performs, some part of his life passeth away. We die with doing that for which alone our sliding life was granted. Nay ; though we do nothing, Time...pace and flies as fast in idleness as in employment. Whether we play or labour, or sleep or dance, or study, the sun passeth and the sand runs. An hour... | |
| Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 sidor
...which a man performs, some part of his life passes. We die while doing that for which alone our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, time...pace, and flies as fast in idleness as in employment. Whether we play or labour, or sleep, or dance, or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour... | |
| 1844 - 104 sidor
...die without doing lhat for which only our i sliding life was granted. Kay, though we do nothing, t time keeps his constant pace, and flies as fast in...as in employment. An hour of vice is as long as an i". hour of virtue; but the difference which follows from ,• good actions is infinite from that ot'ill... | |
| 1843 - 450 sidor
...a man performs, some part of his life passes. We die while doing t'lat for which alone our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, time...pace, and flies as fast in idleness as in employment. Whether we play or labour, or dance or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour of vice... | |
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