It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. The College Signal - Stran 1471902Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 416 strani
...parliament of England " against admitting any- such liberty at all." It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions ; yet it seems that in two points... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 418 strani
...parliament of England " against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions -, yet it seems that in two points... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 strani
...the parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions ; yet it seems that in two points... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 516 strani
...he had express orders from the Parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions, yet it seems that in two points... | |
| 1828 - 488 strani
...freed the mind from dreadful apprehensions. " It is impossible," says dean Swift, " that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind." Alason on SelfKnowledge remarks, " If our hopes and joys centre in this world, it is a mortifying thought,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 strani
...he had express orders from the parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all.'' It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil tu mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions, yet it seems that in... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 strani
...he had express orders from the parliament of England against admitting any such liberty at all." It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providenee as an evil to mankind. Although reason were intended by Providence to govern our passions,... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 strani
...Donne. DEATH. DEATH— Eternity of. Where all life dies, death live«. Milton. DEATH— not an Evil. It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Sw(ft. DEATH— Ревет of. "Fis not the Stoics' lesson got by rote, The pomp of words, and pedant... | |
| Bible Christians - 1863 - 1030 strani
...sun, and gains his Father's house, And drinks with angels from the fount of bliss." One has said, " It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever be designed by providence as an evil to mankind." The correctness of this sentiment may be questioned... | |
| 418 strani
...sense and reason, even apart from revelation, teach ns that, as has been tersely put by Swift, " it is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary,...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind ? " Yet, despite the accumulated wisdom of centuries, despite thought, speech, writing, advancing civilisation,... | |
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