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
| Chaim Stern - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 388 pages
...have seemed hard to give it back to God, nor one grief that she could have foregone without regret. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the... | |
| Tony Kushner - Drama - 2000 - 340 pages
...endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall...snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stU' pidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forget' full of evils past, is a mercifull provision... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Literary Collections - 2003 - 180 pages
...to eome and forgetful of evils past is a mereiful provision in nature whereby we digest the misture of our few and evil days, and, our delivered senses not relapsing imo eutting remembranees, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions. A great part of... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 2004 - 436 pages
...transposed by MWS. The philosophy of Book V is particularly apposite to The Last Man and to MWS herself: 'To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of...whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ...' 102 (p. 209) dead earth upon the earth PBS, The Mask of Anarchy, 1, I3 1 103 (p. 212) walks tomorrow... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities, miseries are slippery, or fall...unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetfull of evils past, is a mercifull provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our... | |
| Education - 1909 - 888 pages
...endureth no extremities, 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 no THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. stupidity. . . . But to subsist in bones and be but Pyramidally extam. is... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 348 pages
...destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. "" Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries -y are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which, notwithstanding, is no unhappy stupidity ;V To / * According to the custom of the Jews, who placed a lighted wax candle in a pot of ashes by... | |
| 1845 - 988 pages
...even to affection. Sir Thomas Brown's works lay open on the table ; my eye fell upon this passage— induce callosities ; miseries are .slippery or fall like snow upon us, which not. withstanding is no unhappy stupidity. To be ignorant of evils to come, añil forgetful of evils... | |
| Fireside pictorial annual - 1883 - 808 pages
...one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate?" ССШ. A MEECIFUL PROVISION. " To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few... | |
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