Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name; but name is sound and echo. And the things which are much valued in life are empty and rotten and trifling, and [like] little dogs biting one another, and little... Seekers After God - Página 277por Frederic William Farrar - 1877 - 336 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1864 - 345 páginas
...pervades all substance and through all time by fixed periods [revolutions] administers the universe. . 33. Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton,...valued in life are empty and rotten and trifling, and [likej little dogs biting one another, and little children quarrelling, laughing, and then straightway... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 334 páginas
...with their proper constitution, and to hold firmly to this and to be content with it." Again : — " The things which are much valued in life are empty, and rotten, and trifling ; and people are like little dogs biting one another, and little children quarrelling, crying, and then straightway... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1866 - 528 páginas
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| emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - 1869 - 230 páginas
...pervades all substance and through all time by fixed periods [revolutions] administers the universe. 33. Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton,...; but name is sound and echo. And the things which arc much valued in life are empty and rotten and trifling, and [like] little dogs biting one another,... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1872 - 524 páginas
...him nearer than any other pagan writer to us of the modern world. Here is the sad summary of it : " Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes or a skeleton, and either a name or not even a name. And the things which are much valued in life are empty, and rotten, and trifling, and like little dogs... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 468 páginas
...with their proper constitution, and to hold firmly to this and to be content with it.' Again : — ' The things which are much valued in life are empty, and rotten, and trifling; and people are like little dogs, biting one another, and little children quarrelling, crying, and then... | |
| Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 páginas
...very soon, thou wilt be ashes^ or a skeleton, a name, or not even a name, for name is sound and echo. The things which are much valued in life are empty,...laughing, and then straightway weeping ; but fidelity, modesty, justice and truth are fled. It would be better to depart from mankind without having had a... | |
| William Wolfe Capes - 1880 - 276 páginas
...nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus [as men do]."2 "Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton,...valued in life are empty, and rotten, and trifling, and [like] little dogs biting one another, and little children quarrelling, laughing, and then straightway... | |
| William Wolfe Capes - 1880 - 268 páginas
...echo. And the things which are much valued in life are empty, and rotten, and trifling, and [like] little dogs biting one another, and little children...quarrelling, laughing, and then straightway weeping. 1 "Thoughts,"*. 36. * " Thoughts," x. 15. But fidelity, and modesty, and justice, and truth are fled... | |
| Leonidas Rosser - 1885 - 302 páginas
...in his work " Seekers After God." The Emperor Marcus Aurelius, born AD 121, comes next. Hear him : " Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes or a skeleton,...little dogs biting one another, and little children quarreling and then straightway weeping. But fidelity and modesty, and justice and truth, are fled... | |
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