 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1758 - 356 pages
...this decree, yet fhould we be fo difpofed, as to look on that laft hour as happy for us, tho' fhocking to our friends ; and never imagine that to be an evil,...which, I wifh, we could make for, with crouded fails; bat tho' the winds fhould not fervc, yet we fhall of courfe gain it, tho' fomewhat later. But how can... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Philosophy, Ancient - 1824 - 318 pages
...parent of all. For it is not by hazard or without design that we have a being here ; but doubtless there is a certain power, concerned for human nature...have a retreat and haven prepared for us, which, I wish, we could make for, with crowded sails ; but though the winds should not serve, yet we shall of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...parent of all. For it is not by hazard, or without design, that we have a being here ; but doubtless there is a certain power concerned for human nature,...have a retreat and haven prepared for us, which I wish we could make for with crowded sails ; but though the winds should not serve, yet we shall of... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1840 - 226 pages
...parent of all. For it is not by hazard or without design that we have a being here ; but doubtless there is a certain power, concerned for human nature...have a retreat and haven prepared for us, which, I wish, we could make for, with crowded sails ; but though the winds should not serve, yet we shall of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...parent of all. For it is not by hazard, or without design, that we have a being here ; but doubtless there is a certain power concerned for human nature,...for a being, which, after having gone through the labors of life, was to fall into an eternal evil by death. Let us rather infer, that we have a retreat... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1853 - 518 pages
...beyond all doubt there is a certain power, which consults the happiness of human nature ; and this would neither have produced nor provided for a being,...gone through the labours of life was to fall into eternal misery by death. Let us rather infer, that we have a retreat and haven prepared for us, which... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1853 - 510 pages
...beyond all doubt there is a certain power, which consults the happiness of human nature ; and this would neither have produced nor provided for a .being,...gone through the labours of life was to fall into eternal misery by death. Let us rather infer, that we have a retreat and haven prepared for us, which... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Good and evil - 1853 - 524 pages
...beyond all doubt there is a certain power, which consults the happiness of human nature ; and this would neither have produced nor provided for a being, which after having gone through the labours of lifo was to fall into eternal misery by death. Let us rather infer, that we have a retreat and haven... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pages
...parent of all. For it is not by hazard, or without design, that we have a being here; but doubtless there is a certain power concerned for human nature,...have a retreat and haven prepared for us, which I wish we could make for with crowded sails; but though the winds should not serve, yet we shall of course... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 472 pages
...parent of all. For it is not by hazard, or without design, that we have a being here ; but doubtless there is a certain power concerned for human nature,...through the labours of life, was to fall into an eternal (¡vil by death. Let us rather infer, that we have a retreat and haven prepared for us, which I wish... | |
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... an. evil, which is an appointment of the immortal Gods, or of Nature, the common parent of all. For it is not by hazard, or without design, that we have a being here... 
