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" If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer conformity unto it, there were a happiness in hoary hairs, and no calamity in half -senses. But the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying ; when avarice makes us the sport of death, when even... "
The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne - Page 216
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Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to Clarendon

Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 pages
...make not one little finger.3 If the nearness of our last necessity, brought a nearer conformity into it, there were a happiness in hoary hairs, and no...makes us the sport of death; when even David grew politicly cruel; and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men. But many are too early old,...
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The Copeland Reader: An Anthology of English Poetry and Prose, Volume 1

Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...If the nearnesse of our last necessity, brought a nearer conformity into it, there were a happinesse n the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries ?...fresh. 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowl politickly cruell; and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men. But many are too early...
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Contemporary American Playwrights

C. W. E. Bigsby - Art - 1999 - 454 pages
...but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition' (Works, pp. 164-5). But he was aware that 'the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying;...makes us the sport of death; when even David grew politickly cruel; and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men' (p. 165). In Kushner's...
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Guy's Hospital Gazette, Volume 19

Dentistry - 1905 - 546 pages
...in his writings does the prose flow with a more majestic roll. Take, for example, this one thought: "If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer conformity unto it. there were a happinessin hoary hairs, and no calamity in half senses But the long habit of living indisposeth us...
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Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations

Sir William Osler - Medical ethics - 2001 - 416 pages
...conformity unto it, ii ii .1 IK. BROWNE there were a happiness in hoary hairs and no calamity in hair senses. But the long habit of living indisposeth us...the sport of death, when even David grew politically cruel,153 and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men.154 But many are too early old and...
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Selected Writings

Sir Thomas Browne - Literary Collections - 2003 - 180 pages
...neeessity brought a nearer eonformity umo it, there were a happiness in hoary haits and no ealamity in halt senses. But the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying, when avariee makes us the sport of death,1" when even David grew politiely eruel," and Solomon eould hardly...
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Translations Into Greek Verse and Prose

Richard Dacre Archer-Hind - English literature - 1905 - 260 pages
...ot«7/<7tç атг ол|г€<и TF the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer con-*• formity unto it, there were a happiness in hoary hairs, and...makes us the sport of death, when even David grew politickly cruel, and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men. But many are too early...
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