Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
WHAT will not kill a man if a vapour will? How great an elephant, how small a mouse destroys! To die by a bullet is the soldier's daily bread; but few men die by hail-shot. A man is more worth than to be sold for single money; a life to be valued above a trifle. If this were a violent shaking of the air by thunder or by cannon, in that case the air is condensed above the thickness of water, of water baked into ice, almost petrified, almost made stone, and no wonder that kills; but that which is but a vapour, and a vapour not forced but breathed, should kill, that our nurse should overlay us, and air that nourishes us should destroy us, but th…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60206-543-7
- EAN: 9781602065437
- Produktnummer: 3141762
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 331 g
- Gewicht: 331
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