 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pagina’s
...bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain ashes, which in the oblivioifof names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto...emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glorv, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pagina’s
...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 but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain si which in the oblivion of names, persons, times,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pagina’s
...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 but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duratiov — vaiu ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persons,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pagina’s
...to subsist in. bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain ashes. winch in the oblivion of names, persons, times,. and sexes,...emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pagina’s
...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;...against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain glories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement for ambition, and finding... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pagina’s
...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....and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement for ambition, and finding no Atropos unto the immortality... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pagina’s
...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....duration. Vain ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persous, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves, a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - 1824 - 496 pagina’s
...cabinet, as if to proclaim the transitory nature of mortal glory, and the vanity of human greatness. " Vain ashes! which in the oblivion of names, persons,...unto late posterity as emblems of mortal vanities'." 1 Vide Douglas' Letter in Prov. Mag., No. 1. * Horda Angel-Cynnan, vol. 1., p. 64. 3 Brown's Hydriot.... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...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....against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain glories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement for ambition, and finding... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pagina’s
...fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which, in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have bound unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only...emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vainglory, and madding vices ! Pagan vainglories, which thought the world might last forever, had encouragement... | |
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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... 
