 | Ezra Sampson - 1818 - 432 sider
...not to let well alone, ordered, as a solemn warning to others, the following line to be engraven upon his tomb. " I was well — I wanted to be better — and here I am ."' Mark the children that are gorged with dainties, and enticed to eat before they are hungry, who,... | |
 | 1870 - 604 sider
...experiments, lest we place the turf in the condition of the man who physicked himself to death. " His epitaph," says the Admiral, " is on his tomb, ' I...none but the thick-and-thin adherents of Sir Joseph Hawlcy are dissatisfied with the manner in which the Jockey Club has dealt with the resolutions submitted... | |
 | John Hughes - 1834 - 498 sider
...entitled to the epitaph of him who was destroyed by the nostrums of quacks, and directed to be written on his tomb, " I was well — I wanted to be better — and here I am." III. You argue " as the Bible is known through the medium of interpretation, and as the Protestant... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1855 - 466 sider
...was not to let well alone, ordered, as a solemn warning to others, the following line to be engraven on his tomb; " I was well — I wanted to be better — and here I am ! " In innumerable instances, the grave has been peopled immaturely, by means of nostrums, which the... | |
 | 1870 - 554 sider
...over-legislation; and the Turf may be assimilated to the man who physicked himself to death. His epitaph was on his tomb, ' I ' was well, I wanted to be better, and here I am.' June, 7870. \\. SIR GOAHEAD. MY pencil mars the hopes of men, I clamour, bawl, and shout. The saddling-bell... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1870 - 630 sider
...experiments, lest we place the turf in the condition of the man who physicked himself to death. " His epitaph," says the Admiral, " is on his tomb, ' I was well : I wanted lo be better, and here I am.' " Everyone must be pleased with the way in which the Reform Committee... | |
 | 1877 - 436 sider
...being well, dosed himself to death with unwholesome drugs. Stavo bene, ma, per star meglio »to vui, ' I was well ; I wanted to be better, and here I am.' " The Gentle Boy. "Be very gentle with her, my son," said Mrs. B., as she tied on her little girl's... | |
 | 1913 - 540 sider
...patient, who had consulted too many medical advisers, directed to be inscribed upon his tombstone — " I was well, I wanted to be better, and here I am." I think no one will join issue with me when I say that, whilst every University needs some form of... | |
 | 1913 - 444 sider
...patient, who had consulted too many medical advisers, directed to be inscribed upon his tombstone — " I was well. I wanted to be better, and here I am." I think no one will join issue with me when I say that, whilst every University needs some form of... | |
 | British Information Services - 1944 - 772 sider
...somewhere, over the grave of one who did not know when he was well off, there is the following epitaph: "I was well; I wanted to be better; and here I am." In the passage I quoted from Mr. Churchill a moment ago I gave only a part of what he said. He set... | |
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Commonwealth, as an attempt to establish a separate bloc. Let us beware lest in changing the form, we lose the substance; or, for appearance's sake, sacrifice reality. I am told that, somewhere, over the grave of one who did not know when he was well... 
