 | 1815 - Počet stránok 880
...world, as to knowledge, truth and virtue. The preacher adopts the exclamation of " an eloquent writer, ' I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and say it is all a desert.' " * Happy they, who like him, are able from the strength of their minds, the... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - Počet stránok 764
...on ! — If this won't turn out something, — another will ;— no matter, — 'tis an essay upon human nature ; — I get my labour for my pains, —...to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beerslieba, and cry, 'Tis all barren ; — and so it is : and so is all the world to him who will not... | |
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 488
...partition of which he will find many plants to be admired, others to be used, and some to be avoided. " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry it is all barren." ITALY AND THE ITALIANS* THEEE is perhaps no country upon which more has been written,... | |
 | London ball-room - 1825 - Počet stránok 170
...been the mercy of silence ! " And cold neglect weighs down the Muse's wing." H HISTORY OF DANCING. " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry 'all's barren !' " and his condition is not less to be' deplored who tasks himself at reconciling amusement... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - Počet stránok 390
...his hands on. 1f this wo'n't tarn out something— another will — no matter — 'tis an essay upon human nature — I get my labour for my pains —...part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. — Sterne. DLL Modesty is to merit as shades to figures in a picture; giving it strength and beauty.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Počet stránok 354
...-another will — no matter — 'tis un essay upon human nature — 1 get my labour for my pains-^'tis enough— the pleasure of the experiment has kept my senses, and the best part of my nlood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. — Sterne. DLL Modesty is to merit as shades to figures... | |
 | William Wilberforce - 1829 - Počet stránok 344
...We have nothing better to do ; we wish we had ; our time hangs heavy on our hands for want of it." I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry " It is all barren." No man has a right to be idle. — Not to speak of that great work which we all... | |
 | Joseph Droz - 1832 - Počet stránok 340
...never failing occasions to give his heart up to the full impulses of joy. ' I pity,' says Sterne, ' the man, who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry 'tis all barren ; and yet so it is ; and so is all the world, to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - 1833 - Počet stránok 250
...and been witness to scenes to move the tenderest affections, or to quail the most stubborn of hearts. "I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and say ' all is barren.' " To a captain, all societies are open, all language is familiar: the man who... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1834 - Počet stránok 440
...something, — another will ; — no matter, — 'tis an essay upon human nature; — I get my labor for my pains, — 'tis enough; — the pleasure of...to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beerslieba, and cry, 'Tis all barren; — and so it is : and so is all the world to him who will not... | |
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I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, " 'tis all barren." And so it is : and so is all the world, to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers. 
