 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1778 - 500 pages
...from the time and fcene of action, it Kerns to have been attended with fome circumftances not Au «9i. Oh ! That I had been more indifferent to life ! Our...referved to us of recovering fome part at leaft of what we have loft, I fhall not think that I have made altogether fo imprudent a choice. But if our... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 908 pages
...completely mifer;, yet 1 feel my misfortunes with a particular fennbilhy upon thofe tender OCODODS. Oh ! that I had been more indifferent to life ! Our days would then have bseni if" DC: wholly unacquainted with forrow, yet by no~means thus wretched. Howtrer, if any hopes... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...Brinclui. VOL. I. B feel my misfortunes with a particular sensihility upon those tender occasions. Oh ! that I had been more indifferent to life ! Our...would then have been, if not wholly, unacquainted with sorrow, yet by no means thus wretched. However, if any ' hopes are still reserved to us of recovering... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 556 pages
...— See 23d December. Cicero writes to his wife and family from Brundusium, in his exile, BC 58 : " Oh ! that I had been more indifferent to life ! our...would then have been, if not wholly unacquainted with sorrow, yet by no means thus wretched. However, if any hopes are still reserved to us of recovering... | |
 | William M. Dunning - 1835 - 458 pages
...completely miserable, yet I feel my misfortunes with a particular sensibility upon those tender occasions.* Oh ! that I had been more indifferent to life ! Our...would then have been, if not wholly unacquainted with sorrow, yet by no means thus wretched. Ah ! my dearest Terentia, if we are utterly and for ever abandoned... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1848 - 882 pages
...completely miserable, yet I feel my misfortunes with a particular sensibility upon those tender occasions. Oh ! that I had been more indifferent to life ! Our...would then have been, if not wholly unacquainted with sorrow, yet by no means thus wretched. However, if any hopes are still reserved to us of recovering... | |
 | 1857 - 358 pages
...above. Cicero in exile found no consolation in philosophy. * O,' he writes to liis wife Terentia, ' that I had been more indifferent to life ! Our days...then have been, if not •wholly unacquainted with sorrow, yet by no means thus wretched.' Fearful as a woman, froward as a child, he could think of nothing... | |
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I am at all times indeed completely miserable, yet I feel my misfortunes with a particular sensibility upon those tender occasions. Oh! that I had been more indifferent to life ! Our days would then have been, if not wholly unacquainted with sorrow, yet... 