 O ! 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. Yet we hope and hope, and fancy that he who has lived to-day may live...  Publications - Página 348por Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 544 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 542 páginas
...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...us learn to derive our hope only from GOD. "In the mean time, let us be kind to one another. I have no friend now living, but you and Mr. Hector, that... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young - 1911 - 1196 páginas
...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. Yet we hope arid hope, and fancy that he who has lived to-day may live to-morrow. But let us learn to derive our... | |
 | 1926 - 694 páginas
...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...hope, and fancy that he who has lived today may live again tomorrow." This from Samuel Johnson. But it must be remembered that this was the man who counted... | |
 | 1840 - 708 páginas
...approach of death is very dreadful. 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 that he who had lived to-day may live to-morrow. But let us learn to derive our hope only from God." His experience... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 páginas
...bedridden and immobile: " 'I would not have the consent of the physician to go to church yesterday. . . . O! my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful....fancy that he who has lived to-day may live to-morrow' " (IV.27o). But when Johnson recovers enough to be even partially active, an altogether different spirit... | |
 | 1882 - 708 páginas
...156, 318, 379; IT. 177, 437; v. 136; x. 155; 6"- S. iii. 143, 183.] DR. JOHNSON (6th S. v. 482).—" Yet we hope and hope, and fancy that he who has lived to-day may live to-morrow." Compare Cicero, De Senectute, cap. viii. 1 : — " Nemo enitn est tarn senex, qui se annum non putet... | |
 | 1859 - 866 páginas
...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." He is still watching his symptoms with the utmost anxiety, hailing every sign of improvement, and depressed... | |
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