...quoting the following passage from Pope's Homer, illustrative of the melancholy sf changeful nature:— Like leaves on trees, the race of Man is found, Now...withering on the ground; Another race the following Spring supplies : So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those ore passed away....

...kingdom, and which has been the subject of general admiration — Like leaves on trees the race <tf man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another RACE the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise : So GENERATIONS in their course decay,...

...unwaith, wedi hyny bod bam.— HEB. ix. 27. t " Like leaves of trees, the race of man is found, Once green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay,...

...40. Even as the leaves Which the keen frost-wind of the waning year Has scatter'd on the forest soil. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive rise • So generations in their course decay...

...honour of introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay,...

...most familiar to the reader. We extract passages, where poetic skill was most likely to be exerted. Like leaves on trees, the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive...

...honour of introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay,...

...honour of introducing this momentous question, in which the interests of humanity and justice were " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay,...

...ffrave that receives all— the grave that is never satisfied, and that never says, It is enough: thus, Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now...withering on the ground. Another race the following age supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So...

...appear to have presented an obvious lesson, known and read of all men. The pagan Homer could tell us — Like leaves on trees the race of man is found ; Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Holy scripture abounds with sublime and touching allusions to the same affecting memento of life's...