 | 1918 - 916 էջ
...contemplate prose of another quality, open the works of Sir Thomas Browne at random, and light upon this: "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of mea without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can bu t pi ty tho founder of the pyramids? Heroslratus... | |
 | 1909 - 898 էջ
...CLEMENTS, SURGEON UNITED STATES ARMY. " the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, anil deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. * * * "Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable men forgot, than any... | |
 | William Aloysius Keleher - 1982 - 580 էջ
...0-8263-0631^4. International Standard Book Number (paperbound) 0-8263-0632-2. "The iniquity of oblivion scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit and perpetuity . . . who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 էջ
...its heart to the shrine of the dead past. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian author, philosopher But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English physician, author Life is all memory, except for the one present... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 էջ
...degrading all fame into notoriety. DANIEL J. BOORSTIN (b. 191 4l, US historian. The Image, ch. 2 (1961). 3 itical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 7, 1839). 8 In matters of religion and matrimony 1 SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-82), English physician, author. Um tturial.ch. 5(1658). 6 Happy is the man... | |
 | Richard Gordon - 2002 - 448 էջ
...cereclothed, that after seventyeight years was found uncorrupted. . . . But the iniquity of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? O. HENRY North Carolina doctor's son O. Henry - who was William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) - like Oscar... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 էջ
...as "decent obscurity," following the parody in The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine of the time. 1 But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. THOMAS BROWNE, (1605-1682) British physician, author. Urn Burial, ch. 5 (1 658). 2 A few more days,... | |
 | Howard Williams - 2003 - 334 էջ
...treatment of the dead in 'how societies remember1. INTRODUCTION "But the inquirv of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids?" (Browne 1658: 77). As an introduction to the volume, this chapter aims to address three areas. Firstly,... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 2002 - 334 էջ
...human achievement, the physician-writer (and Osler's favorite author) Sir Thomas Browne, observed: "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. . . . Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part [of men] must be content to be as though they *Reprinted... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 2003 - 180 էջ
...infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. ч And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?'" But the iniquity of oblivion blindly seattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinetion to merit ofpopetoity. Who... | |
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