 ... Could the youth to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel...  Plain facts for old and young - Page 343by John Harvey Kellogg - 1881 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1888 - 288 pages
...it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will,—to see his destruction and have no power to stop it,...perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own self-ruins... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 pages
...what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, — to see his destruction and have...perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his owu... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - Presbyterian Church - 1894 - 1162 pages
...what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will ; to see his destruction and have no...perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own... | |
 | Aaron Merritt Hills - Temperance - 1895 - 428 pages
...feels himself going down a precipice with open eyes and passive will, to see his destruction and to have no power to stop it ; and yet to feel it all...to perceive all goodness emptied out of him and yet never to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise — to bear about the piteous spectacle of... | |
 | Aaron Merritt Hills - 1895 - 432 pages
...himself going down a precipice with open eyes and passive will, to see his destruction and to l1ave no power to stop it ; and yet to feel it all the way,...to perceive all goodness emptied out of him and yet never to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise — to bear about the piteous spectacle of... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 pages
...what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, to see his destruction and have no power...perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own... | |
 | Henry F. Kletzing - Characters and characteristics - 1898 - 394 pages
...precipice, with open eye and a passive will, to see his destruction, and not to have the power of will then to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating...perceive all goodness emptied out of him and yet not to be able to forget the time when it was otherwise — how he would avoid the first temptation to... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1913 - 596 pages
...what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, — to see his destruction, and have...perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 380 pages
...what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, — to see his destruction and have...perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise; to bear about the piteous spectacle af his own self203... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 636 pages
...what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, — to see his destruction, and have...himself; to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, ana yet not to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle... | |
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