| Samuel Dunn - 1849 - 1194 pages
...with the seventy years of existence allotedto us? — and how are we to live them out to the last ? I solemnly declare that but for the love of knowledge,...preferable to that of the greatest and richest man here present ; for the fire ef our minds is like the fire which the Persians burn in the mountains... | |
| Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...with the seventy years of existence allotted to us ? — and how are we to live them out to the last ? I solemnly declare that, but for the love of knowledge,...preferable to that of the greatest and richest man here present: for the fire of our minds is like the fire which the Persians burn in the mountains,—it... | |
| Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 474 pages
...with the seventy years of existence allotted to us ? — and how are we to live them out to the last ? I solemnly declare that, but for the love of knowledge,...preferable to that of the greatest and richest man here present : for the fire of our minds is like the fire which the Persians burn in the mountains,... | |
| Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...the meanest hedger and ditcher, as preferable to that of the greatest and richest man here present : for the fire of our minds is like the fire which the Persians burn in the mountains, — it flames night and day, and is immortal, and not to be quenched ! Upon... | |
| Rev. Sidney Smith - English essays - 1854 - 296 pages
...with the seventy years of existence allotted to us ? — and how are we to live them out to the last 1 I solemnly declare that, but for the love of knowledge,...preferable to that of the greatest and richest man here present: for the fire of our minds is like the fire which the Persians burn in the mountains —... | |
| John Relly Beard - 1854 - 368 pages
...with the seventy years of r xistenue allotted to us ? — and how arc we to live them out to the last? I solemnly declare that, but for the love of knowledge,...should consider the life of the meanest hedger and diteher, as preferable to that of the greatest and richest man here present . for the fire of our minds... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 pages
...with the seventy years of existence allotted to us? — and how are we to live them out to the last? I solemnly declare that, but for the love of knowledge,...preferable to that of the greatest and richest man here present : for the fire of our minds is like the fire which the Persians burn in the mountains... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pages
...with the seventy years of existence allotted to us? — and how are we to live them out to the last? I solemnly declare that, but for the love of knowledge,...meanest hedger and ditcher, as preferable to that of ftie gceaVesX, ttsAt\K,h.est man here present : for the fire of our minds is like the fire which the... | |
| 1856 - 418 pages
...seventy years uf existence idloiud to us ? — and how are we to live them out to the last? I »olciuuly declare that, but for the love of knowledge, I should consider the life of the meanest hedgcr and ditciier, и preferable to that of the greatest and richest man here present : tot the fire... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 490 pages
...with the seventy years of existence allotted to us ? and how are we to live them out to the last ? I solemnly declare that, but for the love of knowledge, I should consider the life of the meanest hcdger and ditcher aa preferable to that of the greatest and richest man in existence ; for the fire... | |
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