 | South Carolina - 1924 - 506 pages
...brought on a sudden dissolution. His loss is sincerely lamented by his relatives and acquaintance. "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground." (Friday, Aug. 24, 1798) On Friday last, in the afternoon, as Mr. Elias C.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...and wan. O iiiightie love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. *'«"• C. HERBERT. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on theground: Another race the follow ing spring supplies ; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | William Gardiner - Conduct of life - 1927 - 328 pages
...certainty for an uncertainty.— Johnson. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.—Johnson. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive and successive... | |
 | South Carolina - 1924 - 222 pages
...brought on a sudden dissolution. His loss is sincerely lamented by his relatives and acquaintance. "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground." (Friday, Aug. 24, 1798) On Friday last, in the afternoon, as Mr. Elias C.... | |
 | Jørgen Erik Nielsen - Dansk sprog - 1992 - 166 pages
...Alexander Pope, words which, as Horace saw, are no less true about generations of words than of men: Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Arthur Jones - History - 1993 - 288 pages
...FOR JOSEPH CHAPMAN, A TALLOW-CHANDLER, IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT BISHOP STORTFORD, HERTS. Like leaves of trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive... | |
 | Alexander Porteous - Social Science - 2005 - 325 pages
...table-book will make." LEAVK OF TRIES Homer compares the race of mankind to leaves upon a tree thus : " Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies ; They fall successive and successive... | |
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Like leaves on trees the race of 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, So flourish these, when those... 
