 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1885 - 908 oldal
...The general, the statesman, or the philosopher, are perhaps characters which we may never act in, but the dying man is one whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble. — Addison, 1672-1719. B. Its nearness. (1540.) There is not far from youth that hidden certainty... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1839 - 378 oldal
...general, the statesman, or the philosopher, are, perhaps, characters which we may never act in ; but the dying man is one whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble. In short I would have every one consider, that he is in this life nothing more than a passenger —... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 2004 - 264 oldal
...The general, the statesman, or the philosopher, are perhaps characters which we may never act in; but the dying man is one whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble. The Official Record of the War of Rebellion on Shiloh: A battlefield report included in the Shiloh volume... | |
 | Donald T. Blume - 2004 - 426 oldal
...The general, the statesman, or the philosopher, are perhaps characters which we may never act in; but the dying man is one whom, sooner or later, we shall certainly resemble. (I 417) It should not escape our notice that Addison 's paragraph contains echoes of Steele's earlier... | |
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... person at the point of death, we cannot forbear being attentive to every thing he says or does, because we are sure that some time or other we shall ourselves be in the same melancholy circumstances. The general, the statesman, or the philosopher,... 
