 | sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 pages
...would found to common ears like a fable ; for the world, I count it not an inn, but an hofpital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myfelf ; it is the mic'rocofm of mine own frame, that I caft mine eye on ; for the other, I ufe it... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...to relate were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would s,ound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosme of... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...which to relate were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to Hve, but to die in. The world ' / that I regard is myself; it is the microcosme... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...among the many parts of the llcligio Medici that deserves to be indelibly imprinted on the memory. " For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital, and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself, it is the microcosm of mine... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable : for the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself ; it is the microcosm of... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital, and a place, not to live but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of mine... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital ; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of... | |
 | Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 224 pages
...the following passage from Milton:— " For the world, I count it not as an inn but a hospital; and a place not to live but to die in. The world that I regard is myself. It is mine own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round... | |
 | Horace Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 326 pages
...following passage from Milton : — " For the world, I count it not as an inn but a hospital ; and a place not to live but to die in. The world that I regard is myself. It is mine own frame that I cast mine eye on ; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round... | |
 | 1837 - 568 pages
...thought himself tike them, that he calls his life a miracle. ' I count it not an inn but a hospital, and a place not to live but ' to die in. The world that I regard is myself, it is the micro' cosm of my own frame, that I can cast mine eye on-^-for the ' other I use it but like my globe,... | |
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Now for my life, it is a miracle of thirty years, which to relate, were not a history, but a piece of poetry, and would sound to common ears like a fable. For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. 
