 How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who only believes that, after a short turn on the stage of this world, he is to sink into oblivion, and to lose his consciousness...  The Spectator - Page 1611726 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...years, his designs will he contracted into the same narrow span he imagines, is to bound bis existence. How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who only believes that, after a short turn on the stage of this world, he is to sink into oblivien, and to lose his consciousness for... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...elevation, or depression of voice, it is pronounced exactly like a declarative sentence. EXAMPLES. How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who only believes that, after a short turn on the stage of this world, he is to sink into oblivion, and to lose his consciousness for... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...will be contracted into the same narrow span he imagines is to bound bis existence. How can he exult his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who only believes that, after a sbort turn on the stage of this world, he is to sink into oblirion, and to lose his consciousness for... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...elevation, or depression of voice, it is pronounced exactly like a declarative sentence. EXAMPLES. How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who only believes that, after a short turn on the stage of this world, he is to sink into oblivion, and to lose his consciousness for... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 278 pages
...years, his designs will be contracted into the same narrow span he imagines is to bound his existence. How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who only believes that, after a short turn on the stage of this world, he is to sink into oblivion, and to lose his consciousness for... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 292 pages
...years, his designs will be contracted into the same narrow span he imagines is to bound his existence. How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who only believes that, after a short turn on the stage of this world,. he is to sink into oblivion, and to lose his consciousness... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 288 pages
...years, his design* will be contracted into the same narrow span he imagines is to bound his existence. How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who only believes that, after a short turn on the stage of this world, he is to sink into oblivion and to lose his consciousness for... | |
 | Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...elevation, or depression of voice, it is pronounced exactly like a declarative sentence. EXAMPLES. How can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who only believes that after a short turn on the stage of this world, he is to sink into oblivion, and to lose his consciousness for... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...always adopt the ' inflection. Examples. — Is justice lame among us, my friend, as well as blind'? Can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who believes that, after a short turn upon the stag'e of this world, he is to Sink for £ver into oblivion... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...any thing in the female character, be more perverse than an unlimited desire for universal praise?' Can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great and noble, who believes that, after a few short turns on this stage of being, he is then to sinkfor ever into oblivion?'... | |
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