| John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - 1890 - 362 էջ
...such diuturnity unto his relicks, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim ?* Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...died by violent hands, and were thrust into their * Ttbullus. v/r• urns, these bones become considerable, and some old philosophers would honour them,*... | |
| John Evans - 1864 - 500 էջ
...ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate eacro." But though history has dealt hardly with their names, " Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments," and the name, title, and territory of more than one unrecorded British chief has been, and yet may... | |
| Archibald Geikie - 1890 - 484 էջ
...the cause of the change. As Sir Thomas Browne quaintly said more than two hundred years ago, " time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things." We speak of the dust of antiquity and the gnawing tooth of time. We say that things are timeeaten,... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 628 էջ
...such diuturnity unto his relicks, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim f ' Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...become considerable, and some old philosophers would honour them, whose souls they conceived , most pure, which were thus snatched from their bodies, and... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 էջ
...promise such diuturnity unto his relicks, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim f Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art...become considerable, and some old philosophers would honour them, whose souls they conceived most pure, which were thus snatched from their bodies, and... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 էջ
...with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever ! — Horace Mann. Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.— Sir Thomas Browne. We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and y et have much more than we... | |
| Sir John Mandeville - 1895 - 466 էջ
...illustrating an article upon Sir John Maundevile Ay my cousin, Mr. George Somes Layard. — AL] I ME, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make...all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments." So says one who has written some of our noblest English prose, and the book to which these words serve... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1896 - 252 էջ
...gladly say, "Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim? 1 " Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an s art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. [2] In vain we hope to be known by open and Reflections visible conservatories, when to be unknown... | |
| 1897 - 510 էջ
...truth. Time finds out everything and is the wisest of all. Though time, as Sir Thomas Browne said, " antiquates antiquities and hath an art to make dust of all things," it does not destroy but is always an " isthmus between two eternities." It is the " grand discloser... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 էջ
...quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests : what prince can promise such diutumity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, Sic ego...antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all tilings, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories,... | |
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