 | Spectator The - 1857 - Страниц: 780
...to-morrow's doubtful light — FRANCIS. Ws all of us complain of the shortnes« of time, saith Seneca, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - Страниц: 152
...mysterous source he bent in humble, though blind adoration. 609. Our lives, says Seneca, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. 610. It was necessary for the world that arts should... | |
 | Mme. J. Laye - 1858 - Страниц: 340
...had obtained back the presents so singularly extorted from him. — We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that... | |
 | John Richardson Major - 1858 - Страниц: 216
...face again. Farewell for ever. CXVI. We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing... | |
 | John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - Страниц: 248
...untruth needs a great many more to make it good. We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet we have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are often spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we... | |
 | William Walters (Baptist Minister.) - 1861 - Страниц: 424
...Era. v. 16. IT was a saying of Seneca, we all of us complain of the shortness of time, and yet havu much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought... | |
 | John Angell James - 1862 - Страниц: 486
...brighter displays of true wisdom. Seneca observed that we are all of us complaining of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. We are always mourning that our days are few, and yet acting as though there would be no end of them.... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - Страниц: 338
...pronounced with a falling inflection, except the last but one. EXAMPLE. Our lives, says Seneca, are spent either in doing nothing at all*, or in doing nothing to the purpose', or in doing nothing that we ought todo\ ON REPETITION OR ECHO. When an important word, used... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1864 - Страниц: 176
...days and years would glide unobserved. Idler. 7. IMPORTANCE OF TIME. We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are often spent either in doing nothing at all, or doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - Страниц: 344
...to-morrow's doubtful light." FRANCIS'S HORACE. E all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have -much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing... | |
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WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do.... 
