 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 sider
...shining and tempting in this world. The pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate. Intrigues of slate, and the conduct of affairs have something in them...for some years deeply immersed in these, but still \vithhopesofreformingthe\vorld and of making mankind wiser and better. But I have found, that which... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 sider
...of all that is most shining and tempting in this world. The pleasures of sense 1 did soon nauseate. Intrigues of state, and the conduct of affairs have something in them that is more specious; and 1 was for some years deeply immersed in these, but still with hopes of reforming the world, and of... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1824 - 330 sider
...all that is most shining and tempting in this world : The pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate ; intrigues of state, and the conduct of affairs have...is more specious; and I was for some years deeply im-' mersed in these, but still with hopes of reforming the world, and of making mankind wiser and... | |
 | David Simpson - 1825 - 398 sider
...of all that is most shining and tempting in this world. The pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate. Intrigues of state, and the conduct of affairs have...found* That which is crooked cannot be made straight. are cut off according to the common course of things, or hurried out of the world by the violence of... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 sider
...all that is most shining and tempting, in this world : the pleasures of sense, I did soon nauseate ; intrigues of state, and the conduct of affairs, have...of reforming the world, and of making mankind wiser between immortality, and mortality : . . and, as the one opens his bosom, the other pours forth his... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 504 sider
...of all that is most shining and tempting in this world : the pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate; intrigues of state, and the conduct of affairs, have...these, but still with hopes of reforming the world, I and of making mankind wiser and better: but I have found, that which is crooked cannot be made straight.... | |
 | Help - 1839 - 120 sider
...all that is most shining and tempting in this world ; the pleasures of sense I did at once nauseate ; intrigues of state, and the conduct of affairs, have...mankind wiser and better ; but I have found "that whieh is crooked cannot be made straight." I acquainted myself with knowledge and learning, and that... | |
 | Edward O'Brien (barrister-at-law.) - 1842 - 330 sider
...all that is most shining and tempting in this world ; the pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate ; intrigues of state and the conduct of affairs have...mankind wiser and better. But I have found That which u crooked cannot be made straight. I acquainted myself with knowledge and learning, and that in a great... | |
 | 1855 - 488 sider
...of all that is most shining and tempting in the world. The pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate. Intrigues of state, and the conduct of affairs have...them that is more specious; and I was for some years immersed in these; but still, with hopes of reforming the world, and of making mankind wiser and better... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1858 - 250 sider
...of all that is most shining and tempting in the world. The pleasures of sense I did soon nauseate. Intrigues of state and the conduct of affairs have...them that is more specious, and I was for some years immersed in these, but still with hopes of reforming the world, and of making mankind wiser and better:... | |
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I was for some years deeply immersed in these, but still with hopes of reforming the world, and of making mankind wiser and better : but I have found, that which is crooked cannot be made straight. 
