 | William Wilberforce - Apologetics - 1829 - 344 pages
...We have nothing better to do ; we wish we had ; our time hangs heavy on our hands for want of it." I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry " It is all barren." No man has a right to be idle. — Not to speak of that great work which we all... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...coin.—Johnson. MXCVII. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beershebs, and cry, 'tis all barren—and so it is; and so is all the world to him who who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.—Sterne. MXCVIII. Grant, me, gentle Love, said I, One... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1830 - 432 pages
...the experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba,...to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith... | |
 | 1844 - 630 pages
...many a blank day succeeds another with him who, travelling from Dan to Beersheba, would cry, " It is all barren ; and so it is, and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers."* Many a day, in early times, have I been staggered to hear my old friends, Robert... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - British - 1832 - 384 pages
...the experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba,...to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith... | |
 | Joseph Droz - Happiness - 1832 - 340 pages
...never failing occasions to give his heart up to the full impulses of joy. ' I pity,' says Sterne, ' the man, who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry 'tis all barren ; and yet so it is ; and so is all the world, to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - English fiction - 1833 - 250 pages
...and been witness to scenes to move the tenderest affections, or to quail the most stubborn of hearts. "I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and say ' all is barren.' " To a captain, all societies are open, all language is familiar: the man who... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1834 - 440 pages
...my blood awake, and laid the gross to sleep. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beerslieba, and cry, 'Tis all barren; — and so it is : and so...to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. I declare, said I, clapping my hands cheerily together, that was I in a desert, I would find out wherewith... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - 1835 - 236 pages
...manners good and polished, their society agreeable, their hospitality proverbial ; and again I say, " I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and say all is barren." I have been at feasts given by the sultan, at which the grand vizier presided,... | |
 | Tales - 1836 - 392 pages
... TALES A RAMBLER. PRINTED BY STEWAItT AND CO., OLD BAILEY. TALES X. ARAMBL I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba. and cry, 'Tis all barren ! STER*E. ILLUSTRATED BY II. C. SELOUS. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO. CORNHILL, BOOKSELLEKS TO THEIR... | |
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I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. 
