 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...gloomily remarked, as he drew near the grave, that he was about to take a leap in the dark, and should be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at. When D'Alembert, in his last illness, wished to see a clergyman, Condorcet ferociously denied admission... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1853 - 510 pages
...of genius ! One of his last expressions, when informed of the approaches of death, was, " I shall he glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." — Everything was seen in a little way bj this great man ; who, having reasoned himself into an ahject... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - Bible - 1858 - 360 pages
...am about to take a leap in the dark ;" and the last sensible words that he uttered, were, " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." Emerson, towards the close of his life, crawled about the floor, at one time praying, and at another... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 570 pages
...of genius t One of his last expressions, when informed of the approaches of death, was—" I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." Everything was seen in a little way by this great man, who, having reasoned himself into an abject... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 572 pages
...of genius ! One of his last expressions, when informed of the approaches of death, was — " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." Everything was seen in a little way by this great man, who, having reasoned himself into an abject... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - Christian sociology - 1860 - 326 pages
...says, born with him.* And his biographer says, as he lay dying, he remarked to an attendant, " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." To be sure, his theory of the world was constructed as if it were a place to be crept out of. Rousseau,... | |
 | Frederic Dan Huntington - Christian sociology - 1860 - 330 pages
...says, born with him.* And his biographer says, as he lay dying, he remarked to an attendant, " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." To be sure, his theory of the world was constructed as if it were a place to be crept out of. Rousseau,... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1863 - 816 pages
...account of his great age, be expected, that he seemed to anticipate death. ' Then/ said he, ' I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at.' And here let us pause. In enumerating the descendants of William Cavendish, the gentleman usher of... | |
 | ISAAC DISRAELI - 1865 - 566 pages
...of genius ! One of his last expressions, when informed of the approaches of death, was — " I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." Everything was seen in a little way by this great man, who, having reasoned himself into an abject... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1865 - 570 pages
...of genius ! One of his last expressions, when informed of the approaches of death, was—" I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at." Everything was seen in a little way by this great man, who, having reasoned himself into an abject... | |
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