 | Charles Goodrich Whiting - 1886 - 326 pagina’s
...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 - 542 pagina’s
...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 - 572 pagina’s
...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 - 368 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....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 - 440 pagina’s
...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 - 330 pagina’s
...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 - 334 pagina’s
...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 - 582 pagina’s
...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 - 728 pagina’s
...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 - 112 pagina’s
...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... 
