But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.
Quotes about discoursing (4 Quotes)
Among these, accordingly, much discoursing with spirits went on - and it did a world of good which never became manifest.
And if you should question them, they would certainly say We were only idly discoursing and sporting. Say Was it at Allah and His communications and His Apostle that you mocked Do not make excuses you have denied indeed after you had believed if We pardon a party of you, We will chastise (another) party because they are guilty.
Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an undertaker on the merits of the deceased.