 | William B. Cairns - 1896 - 382 Seiten
...manifestly illegal in its principles ; because it strikes at the best — sometimes, alas ! — the 205 only refuge and consolation amidst the distresses...comforts to render life delightful. I can conceive a 210 distressed but virtuous man, surrounded by his children looking up to him for bread when he has... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - 1901 - 776 Seiten
...its principles; because it strikes at the best, sometime, alas, the only refuge and consolation amid the distresses and afflictions of the world. The poor...more occasion for firm hopes beyond the grave than those who have greater comforts to render life delightful. I can conceive a distressed, but virtuous... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1903 - 490 Seiten
...principles ; because it strikes at the best, sometimes, alas ! the only refuge and consolation amid the distresses and afflictions of the world. The poor...more occasion for firm hopes beyond the grave than those who have greater comforts to render life delightful. I can conceive a distressed, but virtuous... | |
 | Adele Millicent Smith - 1905 - 182 Seiten
...death awaits you as it did what was the man's name Crinis 12. It strikes at the best sometimes alas the only refuge and consolation amidst the distresses and afflictions of the world 13. Thus some who have seen a philosopher and having heard one speak as Euphrates speaks and who can... | |
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... only refuge and consolation amidst the distresses and afflictions of the world. The poor and humble, whom it affects to pity, may be stabbed to the heart by it. They have more occasion for firm hopes beyond the grave than the rich and prosperous who... 
