 | 1825 - 322 trang
...informing him of the many mysteries implied in it. He begged of him (John) to consider seriously theybrm of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form he said, being round, shadowed out eternity, which had neither beginning nor end ; and he ought thencs... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1826 - 318 trang
...accompanied by this flattering epistle. " I beg, my son, that you will consider seriously the form of these rings; their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, being round, is typical of Eternity, which has neither beginning nor end; and you ought, thence, to learn the duty... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 468 trang
...present, by informing him of the many mysteries implied in it. He begged him to consider seriously the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, he said, being round, shadowed out Eternity, which had neither beginning nor end ; and he ought thenceto... | |
 | 1842 - 284 trang
...thereby to obtain King John's consent to his desire. The Pope begged His Majesty to consider seriously the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, being round, shadowed out eternity ; for which it was his duty to prepare. Their number, four, denoted the four... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 552 trang
...informing him of the many mysteries which were implied by it. He begged him to consider, seriously, the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, he said, being round, shadowed out eternity, which has neither beginning nor end. Their number, four,... | |
 | John Tanswell - 1858 - 312 trang
...by informing him of the many mysteries implied in it. He begged of him (John) to consider seriously the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, he said, being round, shadowed out eternity, which had neither beginning nor end ; and he ought thence... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 232 trang
...present, by informing him of the many mysteries implied in it. He begged him to consider seriously the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, he said, being round, shadowed out Eternity, which hod neither beginning nor end ; and he ought thence... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 trang
...by informing him of the many mysteries implied in it. He begged of him (John) to consider seriously the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, he said, being round, shadowed out eternity, which had neither beginning nor end and he ought thence... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1862 - 820 trang
...him," says Hume in his condensed account of this admirably grave papal jest, "to consider seriously, the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, being round, shadowed out eternity, which had neither beginning nor ending; and he ought thence to learn his duty... | |
 | David Hume - 1864 - 654 trang
...the present by informing him of the many mysteries implied in it. He begged him to consider seriously the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, he said, being round, shadowed out eternity, which had neither beginning nor end ; and he ought thence... | |
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... implied in it. He begged him to consider seriously the form of the rings, their number, their matter, and their colour. Their form, he said, being round, shadowed out eternity, which had neither beginning nor end ; and he ought thence to learn his... 
