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" It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain. "
Southey's Common-place Book - Página 273
por Robert Southey - 1849
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Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 82 páginas
...immortality of tplato, thereby confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt. It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional,...
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Some Literary Associations of East Anglia

William Alfred Dutt - 1907 - 484 páginas
...writer who, starting with a description of the finding of some urns, is presently declaiming — " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional,...
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The Wander Years: Being Some Account of Journeys Into Life, Letters, and Art

Sir James Henry Yoxall - 1909 - 344 páginas
...eternity," and make the entirety of life one pageant of effort and joy. It is indeed, old Sir Thomas Browne, "the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature." But many a man stops short too soon, himself arrests his development,...
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Byways in British Archaeology

Walter Johnson - 1912 - 552 páginas
...past, seem to have acted towards the dead in accordance with the word of our English philosopher : " It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his nature'." We have yet to review, very briefly, three or four interesting subjects...
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The English Essay and Essayists

Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 páginas
...makes us amazed at those audacities that durst be nothing and return into their chaos again." ..." It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional,...
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Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science ...

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1919 - 434 páginas
...This is the yearning after the proofs of immortality. As Sir Thomas Browne has expressed it: ". . . it is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at...he is at the end of his nature, or that there is no future state to come, unto which this seems progressive, and otherwise made in vain." Let any religion...
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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 páginas
...more spacious maxims, lie so deep as he is placed . . . were a query too sad to insist on. Ibid. IT is the heaviest stone that Melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature. Ibid. ADVERSITY stretcheth out our days, misery makes Alcmena's nights,...
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Canada Lancet, Volumen46

1913 - 992 páginas
...hopeless disease and yet \o remember, as Sir Thomas Browne, himself a physician, has said, that 'it is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him that he is at the end of his being' — these, and many other difficult duties and acts of self -discipline like these, are incumbent...
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Hydriotaphia

Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 180 páginas
...animosity of that attempt. It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seemes progressional, and otherwise made in vaine; Without this accomplishment the natural expectation...
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Sir Thomas Browne: A Study in Religious Philosophy

William Parmly Dunn - 1926 - 210 páginas
...animosity of that attempt. "It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no...seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain." Or take the following remarkable commentary on Job's curse : "Adversity stretcheth our days, misery...
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