...desires and wants, that reach to infinity, and can never be satisfied. His nature is a lie,—-uniting the greatest poverty with the greatest pride. Among...these so great evils, the best thing God has bestowed on man, is the power to take his own life." Sadness, mixed with a cold resignation, is the prevailing...

...contradictions, he is the most wretched of creatures ; since no other has wants transcending the bounds of its nature. Man is full of desires and wants that reach...the greatest poverty with the greatest pride. Among such great evils, the greatest good that God has bestowed on besides or above the present, may be still...

...contradictions, he is the most wretched of creatures; since no other has wants transcending the bounds of its nature. Man is full of desires and wants that reach...the greatest poverty with the greatest pride. Among such great evils, the greatest good that God has bestowed on amir/tiu! tl P(«rI,JIrI. Stobaei Eclogse,...

...thickening mazes. How melancholy the language of the elder Pliny ! — "A being full of contradictions, man is the most wretched of creatures, since the other...these so great evils, the best thing God has bestowed on man is the power to take his own life." Sceptics have seen, as they could not but see, these darker...

...most wretched of creatures ; since THE OTHER CREATURES HAVE NO WANTS TRANSCENDING THE BOUNDS OP THEIH NATURE. Man is full of desires and WANTS, THAT REACH...these so great evils, THE BEST THING God has bestowed on man, is THE POWER TO take his own life."* They do say that Christianity makes men melancholy; but...

...panied all ancient speculation, and seemed eventually to take possession of the entire Greek and Roman minds. The Elder Pliny, who was willing to perish...the Platonic philosophy in Alexandria, mingled with gome Oriental elements of theosophie mysticism. Gorgeous and imposing, appealing to the deepest wants...

...object. The vanity of man, and his insatiable longing after existence, have led him also to dream of life after death. A being full of contradictions,...these so great evils, the best thing God has bestowed on man, is the power to take his own life." So far from exercising unwavering faith in the great doctrine...

...these doleful words, — " The vanity of man, and his insatiable longing after existence, have led him to dream of a life after death. A being full of contradictions,...the greatest poverty with the greatest pride. Among those so great evils, the best thing God has bestowed on man is the power to take his own life." They...

...of creatures, since the other creatures have no wants transcending the bounds of their nature. But man is full of desires and wants that reach to infinity,...uniting the greatest poverty with the greatest pride." Still more forcible is the language of Pascal, when looking at the relation in which man stood to the...

...to imagine that such an infinite Spirit would concern himself with the petty affairs of men. . . . The vanity of man, and his insatiable longing after...bestowed upon man is the power of taking his own life." * It was in this temper, that Pliny was willing to perish under the ashes of Vesuvius. Others, however,...