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" It is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but abjects, and humbles them at the instant ; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He... "
The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world - Page 902
by Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829
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Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ...

Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...and be eternal beggars, and fall headlong into the lap of endless perdition. SIB WALTER RALEGH. IT is death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself....cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their fore passed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar which...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
..." It is death alone, that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and confident, that they are but abjects, and humbles them at the...cry, complain, and repent; yea, even to hate their fore-passed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
..." It is death alone, that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and confident, that they are but abjects, and humbles them at the...cry, complain, and repent; yea, even to hate their fore-passed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which...
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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 2

Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent, that they are but abjccts ; and humbles them at the instant ; makes them cry, complain, and repent ; yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar ; a naked beggar, which...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...and destroyeth man, is believed ; God, which hath made him, and loves him, is always deferred. " I have considered," saith Solomon, " all the works that...cry, complain, and repent ; yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes account of the rich, and proves him a beggar ; a naked beggar, which...
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The Life of John Buncle, Esq, Volume 2

Thomas Amory - 1825 - 350 pages
...ancient inhabitants, and filling them again with so many and so variable sorts of sorrows. It is death tells the proud and insolent, that they are but abjects,...cry, complain, and repent; yea even, to hate their former happiness. It is death takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar,...
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The life of John Buncle, esq; [by T. Amory].

Thomas Amory - 1825 - 1092 pages
...ancient inhabitants, and filling them again with so many and so variable sorts of sorrows. It is death tells the proud and insolent, that they are but abjects,...cry, complain, and repent; yea even, to hate their former happiness. It is death takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar,...
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The Life and Times of Sir Walter Ralegh: With Copious Extracts from His ...

Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 344 pages
...and destroyeth man, is believed ; God, which hath made him, and loves him, is always •deferred. ' I have considered,' saith Solomon, ' all the works that...•complain, and repent ; yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes the account of the rich and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which...
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Events to be remembered in the history of England

Charles Selby - 1854 - 338 pages
...that can suddenly make man know himself; he tells the proud and insolent that they are but ablects, and humbles them at the instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent ; yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which...
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Early years and late reflections v. 3, Volume 3

Clement Carlyon - 1856 - 500 pages
...the King, Francis the First of France, to command that justice should be done upon the murderers of Protestants in Merindol and Cabrieres, which till...cry, complain, and repent ; yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes account of the rich and proves him a beggar ; a naked beggar, which...
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