To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by... The Retrospective Review - Page 931820Full view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into Stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is nounhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision... | |
| Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...Afflictions induce calosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest tin, mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered... | |
| Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...and sorrows destroy us, or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce calosities, miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is merciful provision in nature,... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...\veep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery, or fall like enow ɜ xz < ; UL & f ߕ ]X g % 7V(ZMDx E +P ۇ DFѬJ լ , ^ tvils to come, ami forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby \ve digest the... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery, or fall...which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy stupidity. To * According to the custom of the Jews, who placed a lighted wax candle in a pot of ashes by the corpse.... | |
| English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery, or fall...which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy stupidity. To * According to the custom of the Jews, who placed a lighted wax candle in a pot of ashes by the corpse.... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Great Britain - 1835 - 838 pages
...forgetful of evilt past, it a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the miiftire of our tew and evil days ; and, our delivered senses not relapsing...remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge ol repetition."— SIR T. BROWN'S HYDRIDTIPHIA. I > !•: \ ii Ignorance and kind Forgetfulness, How... | |
| 1837 - 860 pages
...insinnates itself into every vein of the body politic. — Davits. IGNORANCE AND FORORTFULNESS. — To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of...remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetition«.— Sir Thomas Browne. 144 UA THE BIBLE. NOT long ago a proposition was made to prepare... | |
| 1837 - 568 pages
...no extremities, and sorrows ' destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Af' dictions induce callosities — 'miseries are slippery, or fall like ' snow upon us, which notwithstanding is HO unhappy stupidity. ' To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a ' merciful... | |
| Argentine - 1839 - 380 pages
...Browne on the wisdom of adversity, when that Marquis interrupted me. Is not this a fine passage?— ' " To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in our nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered senses not relapsing... | |
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