 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 páginas
...imagination taking a different turn." . . , , To Mrs. Williams, a little before her death, lie said, " Oh! my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful....to think on that which I know I cannot avoid. It is in vain to look round and round for that help which cannot be had. Yet we hope and hope, and fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, James Boswell - 1825 - 370 páginas
...imagination taking a different turn." To Mrs. Williams, a little before her death, he said, " Oh ! my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful....to think on that which I know I cannot avoid. It is in vain to look round and round for that help which cannot be had. Yet we hope and hope, and fancy... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 páginas
...have the consent of the physicians to go to church yesterday; I therefore received the holy sacrament at home, in the room where I communicated with dear...before her death. O! my friend, the approach of death ia very dreadful! I am afraid to think OB that which L know I cannot avoid. It is vain to look round... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1850 - 758 páginas
...looting- for of judgment into the eternal world. " The approach of death to dreadful," he exclaims. •• I am afraid to think on that which I know I cannot avoid. It is in vain to look round and round for that help which cannot be had, yet we hope and hope, and fane;... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1867 - 340 páginas
...sought the aid of physician after physician, and tried every possible remedy. "Oh, my friend, "he wrote, "the approach of death is very dreadful ! I am afraid...that which I know I cannot avoid. It is vain to look forward and round for that help which cannot be had." Benefited by the return of summer, and hoping... | |
 | 1854 - 664 páginas
...the removal of any one I know from one state to another." In a letter to Dr. Taylor, he exclaims, " 0 my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful! I am afraid to think of that which I eannot avoid !" He told Dr. Hawkins that he never had a moment in which death was not... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 páginas
...few months of his decease, the following passage occurs in a letter of Johnson's to Dr. Taylor : " O my friend ! the approach of death is very dreadful....afraid to think on that which I know I cannot avoid." His presumed sensitiveness on the subject is illustrated again in a paragraph from Boswell, some five... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 316 páginas
...have the consent of the physicians to go to church yesterday : 1 therefore received the holy sacrament at home, in the room where I communicated with dear Mrs. Williams, a little before her death. 0 my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful. I am afraid to think on that which I know I cannot... | |
 | 436 páginas
...looking-for of judgment into the eternal world. " ' The approach of death is dreadful,' he exclaims. ' I am afraid to think on that which I know I cannot avoid. It is in vain to look round and round for that help which cannot be had, yet we hope and hope, and fancy... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 páginas
...nights are very sleepless and very tedious, and yet 1 am extremely airaid of dying.— Johnson, 748. O MY friend, the approach of death is very dreadful ! I am afraid to think on that which 1 know I cannot avoid. — (To Taylor), 752. LONDOB, 15th of April, 1784. — Yesterday I had the pleasure... | |
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Williams, a little before her death. 0! my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful. I am afraid to think on that which I know I cannot avoid. It is vain to look round and round for that help which cannot be had. 
