 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1810 - 438 pages
...become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ?" As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, "...Christianity; for that, although a reverence for it shines' | works in several places, that is not enough. *. vru B.iit»\v, (said I,) what Grotius has done, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 pages
...become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ?" As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But...should do also." He replied, " I hope I shall." Monday, 23d August.—Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause?" As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But...should do also." He replied, " I hope I shall." Monday, 23rf August.— Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause? " As Bacon self-examination is habitual, that I cannot omit it:...length of time and frequency of experiment. This 23d August. — Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1835 - 910 pages
...Lady Santerre's advice and directions by which to regulate her conduct on this occasion. CHAPTER X. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. BACON. THEY arrived in Berkeley- square. Lady Lodore alighted, and perceived with something of a beating... | |
 | English essays - 1837 - 728 pages
...of these trees would attain a circumference of 28 feet in our Northern iliinate. P. 90. " As Bacon says : Who then to frail Mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust." In what treatise of Bacon's are these lines ? and why they are not referred to by the Editor ? We shall... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause? " As Bacon says, " Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But...writes in dust." I said, he should write, expressly in supsort of Christianity; for that, although a reverence for it shines through his works in several... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...become of society, if a friendship of twentv years is to be broken off for such a cause ? * As Bacon says, — " Who then to frail mortality shall trust....should do also." He replied, " I hope I shall." Monday, Aug. 23. — Principal Campbell, Sir Alexander Gordon, Professor Gordon, and Professor Ross, visited... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 1170 pages
...Boswell's Journal of his Tour to the Hebrides he quotes the subjoined couplet, premising, " As Bacon says — " Who then to frail mortality shall trust. But limns the water, or but writes in dust." Is not Bacon here a slip of the pen or press ? Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Bacon, and Bacon the sculptor,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 448 pages
...from the womb so to the tomb : Curst from the cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears. Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. Yet since with sorrow here we live opprest, what life is best ? Courts are but only superficial schools... | |
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What is to become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause ? ' As Bacon says, ' Who then to frail mortality shall trust, ' But limns the water, or but writes in dust. 
