Supposing then that you had it in your choice to be happy all the while this prodigious mass of sand was consuming by this slow method till there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ? Or, supposing that you... The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift - Page 303by Jonathan Swift - 1902Full view - About this book
| 1729 - 320 pages
...fuppofing that you might be happy for ever after, on Condition you would be miferable till the whole Mafs of Sand were thus annihilated at the Rate of one Sand in a thoufand Years : Which of thefe two Cafes would you make your Choice? IT muft be confefled in this... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 490 pages
...after ; or supposing that you might be happy for ever after, on condition you. would be miserable until the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the...which of these two cases would you make your choice ?" p 4 CHARACTER CHARACTER OF HERODOTUS. JL HE underwritten is copied from Dr. Swift's (dean of St.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 484 pages
...after ; or supposing that you might be happy for ever after, on condition you would be miserable until the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the...which of these two cases would you make your choice ?"CHARACTER OF HERODOTUS. X HE underwritten is copied from Dr. Swift's (dean of St. Patrick's) own... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 476 pages
...after ; or supposing that you might be happy for ever after, on condition you would be miserable until the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the...which of these two cases would you make your choice ?" CHARACTER OF HERODOTUS. A HE underwritten is copied from Dr. Swift's (dean of St. Patrick's) own... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 304 pages
...after on condition you would be miserable until the whole mass ot sand were thus annihilated at 'he rate of one sand in a thousand years : — which of these two cases would you make ysur choice ? It must be confessed in this case, so many thousands of years are to the imagination... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 342 pages
...life, we are sure that our endeavours will succeed, and that we shall not be disappointed of our hope. The following question is started by one of the school-men....which of these two cases would you make your choice ? . It must be confessed in this case, so many thousands of years are to the imagination as a kind... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 498 pages
...you would be miserable till the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the rate of one grain of sand in a thousand years : which of these two cases would you make your choice ? It must be confessed in this case, so many thousands of years are to the imagination as a kind of... | |
| Henry Kirke White - Poets, English - 1808 - 698 pages
...this slow method, till there was not a graiu of it left, on condition that you were to be miserable ever after; or supposing that you might be happy for...sand were thus annihilated, at the rate of one sand a thousand years; which of these two eases would you make your choice? It must be confessed that in... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 554 pages
...after ; or supposing that you. might be happy for ever after, on condition you would be miserable until the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the rate of one sand in a thousand years: which •f these two cases would you make your choice?" THE THE GUARDIAN, No. XCVI. * AN ESSAY ON NATIONAL... | |
| Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey - English literature - 1808 - 358 pages
...miserable ever after; or supposing that you might be hap py for ever after, on condition, you \v6uld be miserable till the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated, at the rate of one sand a thousand years; which of these twa cases would you make your choice? It must be confessed that in... | |
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