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...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.f Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be * The...

...example — " There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare in4 scriptions, like many in Gruter ; to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets,...

...buried in our survivors. Gravestone» tell truth scarco forty years. Generation» pass while some tree» l the source of every grief, If soft humanity o'er touched your breast, Tonr Grnter, (4) to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or flrst letters of our names, to be studied...

...shut up all. 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 survi* 0, the character of death. TOTS. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.* Generations pass...

...shut up all. 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 survi* 0, the character of death. vors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.* Generations pass...

...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 tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.' History fades into fable; — fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders...

...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 tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'." History fades into fable'; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy'; the inscription moulders...

...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 tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders...

...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. jGenerations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare...