 | Charles Goodrich Whiting - 1886 - Страниц: 326
...buried, — incinerated and inhumed, — yet what availed such pains ? Verily, Sir Thomas was right, — "to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant,...emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vainglory and madding vices." IS THIS THE STORY OF THE SOUL? SCRAP from out God's open hand Let fall... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1886 - Страниц: 542
...grammarians. — Marcel. Donaius in Suet. t KXimi lOvea veKpZv. — Horn. Job, pyramidally_j;xj;antl_ is a fallacy in duration. Vain "ashes • 'which in...the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, I have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and / only arise unto late posterity, as emblems... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - Страниц: 572
...tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, ens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid...questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the aahes which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - Страниц: 368
...Observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their Reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves, a fruitlesse continuation, and only arise unto late posterity, as Emblemes of mortall vanities ; Antidotes... | |
 | Sydney John Hickson - 1889 - Страниц: 440
...their sake. The silent tomb of this unknown hero recalled to my mind the words of Sir Thomas Browne : ' To subsist in bones and be but pyramidally extant is a fallacy of duration.' On the following day I received permission to land on one of the Saha islands. These... | |
 | John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - 1890 - Страниц: 330
...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relicks, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - 1890 - Страниц: 334
...observators. Hud they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relicks, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and 1)6 but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain iishes which in the oblivion of names, persons,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - Страниц: 582
...observators. Had they mnde ae good provision for their names, as they have done for their reliques. they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. B|ut tc subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in * First printed in 1658, Svo, accompanied... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - Страниц: 728
...tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only rise unto late posterity, as emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding... | |
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - Страниц: 112
...tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be put pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which, in the oblivion of names, persons,... | |
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... to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which, in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto late posterity as emblems... 
