human
also such well-known lines as
gpt
Quid sit futurum eras, fuge quærere, and
human
Quis scit an adjiciant hodiernæ crastina summæ Tempora Di superi? --compared with
gpt
Take no thought for the morrow and
human
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
gpt
Not only are we in peril every time we take breath, both from the action of our own uncertain hearts and from the living germs of poison floating in the air, but from all sorts of outer accidents (so-called, whereas they all are
human
) wherewith our little life is compassed from, cradle to grave; in truth, trifles seem to rule us:
gpt
Every inch and every instant, we are guided and guarded, whether we notice it or not:
human
Here shall follow some personal experiences in proof. Nearly seventy years ago I knew a small schoolboy of seven who accidentally slit his own throat while cutting a slate-frame against his chest with a sharp knife; there was a knot in the wood, the knife slipped up, a pinafore was instantaneously covered with blood--(though the little semisuicide was unconscious of any pain)--thereafter his neck was quickly strapped with diaculum plaister,--and to this day a slight scar may be found on the left side of a silvery beard! Was not this a providential escape? Again--a lively little urchin in his holiday recklessness ran his head pell-mell blindly against a certain cannon post in Swallow Passage, leading from Princes Street, Hanover Square, to Oxford Street, and was so damaged as to have been carried home insensible to Burlington Street: a little more, the doctors said, and it would have been a case of concussion of the brain. The post is still there