 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 - Page 1421880Full view - About this book
 | Owen Felltham - Conduct of life - 1820 - 546 pages
...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 - Christian life - 1820 - 552 pages
...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 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Albany (N.Y.) - 1844 - 104 pages
...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... | |
 | Ireland - 1843 - 450 pages
...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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