 It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 265by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1823 - 92 pages
...by that distinguished physician, who -has rightly; said, that (p) " it is the heaviest stone which melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of;his nature, or that there is no further , state to come, unto which this seems pr,ogressiona), and... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 528 pages
...worship.7 As 7 " It is the heaviest stone," says Sir Thomas Brown in his curious work Hydriotaphia, " that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he...there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional; and otherwise made in vain." But of sucli a conspiracy and assault against the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 568 pages
...animosity of that attempt. " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him that he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain : without this accomplishment, the natural expectation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...Plato, thereby con6rming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt. " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell...there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain : without this accomplishment, the natural expectation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 554 pages
...Plato, thereby confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt. " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell...there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain : without this accomplishment, the natural expectation... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - 1825 - 514 pages
...to such extravagancies with avidity ; " for," as Sir Thomas Brown has remarked, " it is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell...is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no future state to come, unto which this seems progressively and otherwise made in vain." It has remained,... | |
 | 1823 - 684 pages
...I'lalo, thereby confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt. " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that therj is no further state to come, unto which this seemes progressions], and otherwise made iu vain... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...animosity of that attempt. " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him that he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further stat« to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain : without this accomplishment,... | |
 | J S. Forsyth - 1827 - 472 pages
...Brown has remarked, " it is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him that he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no future state to come, unto which this seems progressively and otherwise made in vain." It has remained... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...Plato, thereby confirming; his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt. — It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him...there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progrcssional, and otherwise made in vain : without this accomplishment, the natural expectation... | |
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