 | William Temple - Europe - 1757 - 564 pages
...introduced by Odin among the weftern Goths, 'tis. certain, that an opinion was fixed and general among fhem, that death was but the entrance into another life ; that all men who lived lazy and unactive lives* and died natural deaths, by ficknefs, or by age, went into vaft caves under ground,... | |
 | James Thomson - English literature - 1763 - 458 pages
...indulgent laws,, *'It-is certain, that an .opinion was fixed and general among . them j[the Goth), that death was but the entrance into another life; that all men who lived lazy and unactive lives, and. died natural deaths, by ficknefs or by age, went into vaft caves under ground,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 628 pages
...678. It a certain, that an opinion was fixed iz4 THOMSON'S POEMS, and general among them (the Goths) that death was but the entrance into another life ; that all men who lived lazy and unaftive lives, and died natural deaths, by fieknefs or by age, went intovaft caves underground, all... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1787 - 510 pages
...known. I) It is certain that an opinion was fixed and general among *hem (the Goihi) that death waj but the entrance into another life ; that all men...lazy and una&ive lives, and died natural deaths., by ficknefi or by ace, went into vaft caves Voder ground, all dark and miry, full of noifome ercatusci... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford - Sermons, English - 1795 - 362 pages
...introduced by Odin " among the Weftern Goths, it is certain that " an opinion was fixed and general among " them, that death was but the entrance into " another life ; that all men who lived lazy and " unadive lives, and died natural deaths, by " ficknefs or by age, went into vaft caves under " ground,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...Ver. 678. It is certain, that an opinion was £ied and general among them (the Goths) that death v.-as but the entrance into another life ; that all men who lived lazy and unactive lives, tad died natural deaths, by ficknefs or by age, vent into vaft caves under ground,... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - English literature - 1802 - 344 pages
...of art-nursing Peace, * It is certain, that an opinion was fixed and general among them (the Goths), that death was but the entrance into another life ; that all men who lived lazy and unactive lives, and died natural deaths, by sick* ness or by age, went into vast caves under ground,... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 236 pages
...Her story is well known. f It is certain that an opinion was fixed and general among them (the Goths) that death was but the entrance into another life ; that all men who lived lazy and inactive lives, and xiied natural deaths, by sickness, or by age, went into vast caves under ground,... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...Queen of the Iceni. 48 It is certain, than an opinion was fixed and general among them (the Goths) that death was but the entrance into another life; that all men who lived lazy and unactive lives, and died natural deaths, by sickness or by age, went into vast caves under ground,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...and prompted to deeds of carnage by the genius of their religion. An opinion was fixed and general among them, that death was but the entrance into another life ; that all men who lived lazy and inactive lives, and died natural deaths, by sickness or by age, went into vast caves under ground,... | |
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It is certain, that an opinion -was fixed and general among them (the Goths) that death was but the entrance into another life ; that all men who lived lazy and unactive lives, and died natural deaths, by sickness or by age, went into vast caves under... 
