 | 1881 - 578 pagina’s
...of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. hrane • Who holds that the inn i« the centre of the world, t From " Hydriotnphi.i, or Urn Burial." posterity,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1882 - 220 pagina’s
...of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion of names, persons,...themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto * One night as long as three. t The puzzling questions of Tiberius unto grammarians. — Marcel. Donalus... | |
 | Charles Goodrich Whiting - 1886 - 326 pagina’s
...Thomas was right, — "to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes ! which in the oblivion of names, persons,...antidotes against pride, vainglory and madding vices." IS THIS THE STORY OF THE SOUL? SCRAP from out God's open hand Let fall and floating on the wind, Currents... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1886 - 542 pagina’s
...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
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain aahes s of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of...slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide • Who holds that the son is the centro of the world. t From " Hydriotapliu, or Urn BurtaL" posterity,... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pagina’s
...art of perpetuation. But 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 fruitlesse continuation, and only arise unto late posterity, as Emblemes of mortall vanities ; Antidotes... | |
 | John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - 1890 - 362 pagina’s
...of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion of names, persons,...ambition; and, finding no atropos unto the immortality of * One night as long as three. t The puzzling questions of Tiberius unto grammarians. — Marcel. Donatus... | |
 | John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - 1890 - 334 pagina’s
...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, times, and...; and, finding no atropos unto the immortality of * One night as long ;is three. t The puzzling questions of Tiberius unto grammarians.— their names,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pagina’s
...names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only rise unto late posterity, as emblems of mortal vanities,...Pagan vain-glories which thought the world might last forever, had encouragement for ambition; and, finding no atropos™ unto the immortality of their names,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 pagina’s
...oblivion of names, persona, times and sexes have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, »nd only arise unto late posterity, as emblems of mortal vanities ; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
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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 pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion... 
