 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...and be eternal beggars, and fall headlong into the lap of endless perdition. SIB WALTER RALEGH. IT is death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself....cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their fore passed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar which... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
..." It is death alone, that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and confident, that they are but abjects, and humbles them at the...cry, complain, and repent; yea, even to hate their fore-passed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
..." It is death alone, that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and confident, that they are but abjects, and humbles them at the...cry, complain, and repent; yea, even to hate their fore-passed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent, that they are but abjccts ; and humbles them at the instant ; makes them cry, complain, and repent ; yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar ; a naked beggar, which... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...which hath made him, and loves him, is always deferred. " I have considered," saith Solomon, " all the works that are under the sun, and behold, all is vanity...cry, complain, and repent ; yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes account of the rich, and proves him a beggar ; a naked beggar, which... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1825 - 350 pages
...ancient inhabitants, and filling them again with so many and so variable sorts of sorrows. It is death tells the proud and insolent, that they are but abjects,...cry, complain, and repent; yea even, to hate their former happiness. It is death takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar,... | |
 | Thomas Amory - 1825 - 1092 pages
...ancient inhabitants, and filling them again with so many and so variable sorts of sorrows. It is death tells the proud and insolent, that they are but abjects,...cry, complain, and repent; yea even, to hate their former happiness. It is death takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit" But who believes it, till Death tells it us? It is Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself....are but abjects, and humbles them at the' instant. He takes the account of the rich man, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar. He holds a glass before... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1834 - 330 pages
...and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." But who believes it, till Death tells it us? It is Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself....are but abjects, and humbles them at the instant. He takes the account of the rich man, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar. He holds a glass before... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 320 pages
...and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit." But who believes it, till Death tells it us? It is Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself....are but abjects, and humbles them at the instant. He takes the account of the rich man, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar. He holds a glass before... | |
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It is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but Abjects, and humbles them at the instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He... 
