 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...midst of the tide." " The bridge thou seest," said he, " is human life ; consider it attentively." 14. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of three score and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...it" — "I see a bridge," said I. ' ' standing in the midst of the tide. "—"The bridge thou seest," f thou hast no thought of me. Nor what I have endur'd countng the arches, the genius told me that this jridge consisted at first of a thousand arches r jut... | |
 | Franz C F. Demmler - 1842 - 92 pages
...attentively.1, Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I 7 Say : is a part. found that it consisted of seventy entire arches, with several broken arches, which,...added to those that were entire, made up the number to about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me, that this bridge consisted at... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 648 pages
...verest in It.' 'I see a bridge/ said I, 'standing In the midst of the tide.' 'The bridge thou seest, 'said he, 'Is Human Life ; consider it attentively.'...leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of three -score and ten arches, which, added to thoae that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1844 - 476 pages
...in it." " I see a bridge," said I, " standing in the midst of the tide." " The bridge thou seest," said he, " is human life ; consider it attentively."...to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at n'rst of... | |
 | Churchman - 1844 - 396 pages
...discoverest in it.' 'I see a bridge,' said I, ' standing in the midst of the tide.' ' The bridge thou seest,' said he, ' is human life ; consider it attentively.'...to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...discoverest in it." " I see a bridge," said I, "standing in the midst of the tide." "The bridge thou seest," said he, " is Human Life ; consider it attentively."...added to those that were entire, made up the number to about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1849 - 348 pages
...discoverest in it." "I see a bridge," said I, "standing in the midst of the tide." "The bridge thou seest," said he, "is human life : consider it attentively."...leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of three score and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...discoverest in it.' 'I see a bridge,' said I, 'standing in the midst of the tide.' 'The bridge thou seest,' said he, ' is human life ; consider it attentively.'...added to those that were entire, made up the number to about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me, that this bridge consisted at... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - French language - 1851 - 506 pages
...in it." " I see a bridge," said I, " standing in the midst of the tide." " The bridge thou seest," said he, " is human life ; consider it attentively."...to those that were entire, made up the number about a hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at rirst of... | |
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Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. 
