| English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...reader a sight of that mountain of miseries , which was made up of those several calamities that afflict the minds of men. I saw , with unspeakable pleasure...of life , and wondered how the owners of them ever Ii6 THE EKGLISH INSTRTTCTOK. came to look upon them as burdens and grievances. As we were regarding... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...reader a sight of that, mountain of miseries which was made up uf those several calamities that afflict the minds of men. I saw with unspeakable pleasure...though at the same time, as we stood round the heap, auid surveyed the several materials of which it was composed, there was scarcely a mortal in this vast... | |
| 1804 - 412 pages
...the heap, and surveyed the several materials materials of which it was composed, there was scarce! v a mortal, in this vast multitude, who did not discover what he thought pleasures and blessings of life, ar.ci wondered how the owners of them ever came to look Upon them as burthens and grievances. As we... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 494 pages
...reader a sight of that mountain of miseries which was made up of those several calamities that afflict the minds of men. I saw with unspeakable pleasure...Several materials of which it was composed, there was scarcely a mortal in this vast multitude, who did not discover what he thought pleasures of life, and... | |
| 1808 - 306 pages
...heing now hrought in, every man was at liherty to exchange his misfortunes for those of another person. As we stood round the heap, and surveyed the several materials of which it was composed, there \raB scarce a mortal in this vast multitude, who did not . ' 198 MEN BLIND TO THEIR HAPPINESS, cover... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 304 pages
...reader a sight of that mountain of miseries which was made up of those several calamities that afflict the minds of men. I saw, with unspeakable pleasure,...from its sorrows : though at the same time, as we slood round the heap, and surveyed the several materials of which it was composed, there was scarcely... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 272 pages
...stood round the heap, and surveyed the several materials of which it was composed, there was scarcely a mortal in this vast multitude, who did not discover what he thought pleasures of life, and wondered how the owners of them ever came to look upon them as burdens and grievances.... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 274 pages
...reader a sight of that mountain of miseries which was made up of those several calamities that afflict the minds of men. I saw with unspeakable pleasure...several materials of which it was composed, there ••vas scarcely a mortal in this vast multitude, who did not discover what he thought pleasures... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...reader a sight of that mountain of miseries which was made up of those several calamities that afflict the minds of men. I saw with unspeakable pleasure...several materials of which it was composed, there was scarcely a mortal in this vast multitude, who did not discover what he thought pleasures and blessings... | |
| Spectator The - 1823 - 352 pages
...reader a sight of that mountain of miseries which was made up of those several calamities that afflict the minds of men. I saw with unspeakable pleasure...several materials of which it was composed, there was scarcely a mortal in this vast multitude, who did not discover what he thought pleasures of life, and... | |
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