 Strip human life of its connection with a higher scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant — an unmeaning farce — a series of visions, and projects, and convulsive efforts, which terminate in nothing.  The Quarterly Review - Seite 414herausgegeben von - 1852Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Hanna - 1849 - 572 Seiten
...still more salutary—the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its connexion with a higher scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant,...reading Pascal's Thoughts on Religion : you know his history—a man of the richest endowments, and whose youth was signalized by his profound and original... | |
 | William Hanna - 1850 - 538 Seiten
...still more salutary, the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its connection with a higher scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant,...man of the richest endowments, and whose youth was signalized by his profound and original speculations in mathematical science, but who could stop short... | |
 | 1850 - 880 Seiten
...more salutary — the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its connexion with a higher scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant,...man of the richest endowments, and whose youth was signalized by his profound and original speculations in mathematical science, but who could stop short... | |
 | 1850 - 524 Seiten
...more salutary — the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its connection with a higher scene of existence and it is the illusion of an instant...and convulsive efforts which terminate in nothing" (152). In this frame of mind, Dr. Chalmers, scrutinizing his past life, found that it had been all... | |
 | 1850 - 622 Seiten
...more salutary — the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its connexion with a higher scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant,...farce, a series of visions and projects, and convulsive effort.*, which terminate in nothing. I harc been reading Pascal's Thoughts on Keligion : you know... | |
 | 1850 - 862 Seiten
...still more salutary— the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its cenncxion with a higher scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant, an unmeaning farce, a scries of visions and projects, and convulsive efforts, which terminate in nothing. I have been reading... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 Seiten
...more salutary — the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its connection with a higher scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant...man of the richest endowments, and whose youth was signalized by his profound and original speculations in mathematical science, but who could stop short... | |
 | 1851 - 658 Seiten
...more salutary — the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its connection with a higher scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant,...man of the richest endowments, and whose youth was signalized by his profound and original speculations in mathematical science, but who could stop short... | |
 | 1852 - 318 Seiten
...more salutary — the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its connection with another scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant,...and convulsive efforts, which terminate in nothing." But the foundations of his past faith had been unsettled, and the struggle for clearer views was a... | |
 | 1852 - 610 Seiten
...more salutary — the magnitude of eternity. Strip human life of its connection with a higher scene of existence, and it is the illusion of an instant,...unmeaning farce, a series of visions and projects, which terminate in nothing." — Vol. ip 152. Passages such as this may be called the commonplace of... | |
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