...will in turn be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. "Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown , ' ' find their graves in our short memories, and sadly...arches , pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and then- epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? What is the security of a tomb, or the perpetuity...

...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, "find their graves in our short memories, and sadly...the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are tliey but heaps of sand ; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust ? What is the security...

...themf.— Their memorial is perislied with them*. '• • • • e Exodus ii. 22. f "Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may he buried in our survivors.— Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — To he content that times...

...be peopled by strangers, and we shall be forgotten. " Oar fathers"* says a great English writer, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." And this in a rather different sense is applicable to us, — we soon forget our predecessors, and...

...There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporarily considereth all things; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...There is no Antidote against the Opinion of Time, which, temporally considereth all things; Our Fathers find their Graves in our short memories and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: Generations pass while some Trees stand, and old families...

...There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. OUT fathers ous of his liberty. Rom. I would I were thy bird. Jul. Sweet, fo would I : Yet I should kill thee Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly...from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Column.*, arches, pyramids, what arc they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written...

...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly...fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the insciiption moulders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids,...