 As if the natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling accidents, as from real evils. I have known...  The National Magazine - Seite 84herausgegeben von - 1853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Black (M.D.) - 1880 - 172 Seiten
...; thus it happens that causes from without produce dreams from within. " We suffer," says Addison, "as much from trifling accidents as from real evils....known the shooting of a star spoil a night's rest." "A general who led an army with credit has been known to feel alarmed at a windingsheet in the candle... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1882 - 428 Seiten
...the natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling...screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers : nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1884 - 498 Seiten
...calamities of life were not enough for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortune, and suffer as much from trifling accidents as from...seen a man in love grow pale and lose his appetite on the plucking of a merry-thought. A screeoh-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1884 - 200 Seiten
...the natural calamities of life wete not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling accidents as from real evils. 6. I have known the shooting of a star spoil a night's rest; and have seen a man in love grow pale... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1886 - 568 Seiten
...natural calamities of life were not sufficient for us, we turn the -nost indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling...screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers ; nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1890 - 320 Seiten
...that has been mentally formed for the occasion, the winner being the one who gets the longer fragment. I have known the shooting of a star spoil a night's rest ; and hare aeen a man in love grow pale, and lose his appetite, upon the plucking of a merry-thwiyM. Addifon,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 358 Seiten
...the natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling...screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers : nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. There... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 248 Seiten
...the natural calamities of life were not sufficient for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling...screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers ; nay, the voice of a cricket hath struck more terror than the roaring of a lion. 30... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1892 - 460 Seiten
...calamities of life were not enough for it, we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortune, and suffer as much from trifling accidents as from...screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers, — nay, the voice of a cricket has struck more terror than the roaring of a lion.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1892 - 100 Seiten
...natural calamities of life were not sufficient for us, •we turn the most indifferent circumstances into misfortunes, and suffer as much from trifling accidents, as from real evils. I liave^known the shooting of a star spoil a night's rest ; and have seen a man in love grow pale, and... | |
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