... flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres and to burn like Sardanapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral laws... The Quarterly Review - Pagina 10geredigeerd door - 1830Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 268 pagina’s
...but the wisdome of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. Urn Burial THOMAS FULLER (1608-1661) OF CHARITY It were arrant presumption for any to imprison freedome... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pagina’s
...the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal [310 blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. Five languages secured not the epitaph of Gordianus. The man of God lives longer without a tomb than... | |
| Geraldine Emma Hodgson - 1923 - 328 pagina’s
...; but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. The concluding lines of Cyrus's Garden are no less magnificent: indeed, these two chapters are generally... | |
| 1870 - 604 pagina’s
...and to burn like Sardanapalusl but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires into the rule of sober obsequies,...wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitcli, a mourner, and an urn. The lecturer then proceeded to give a description of tiie Yorkshire... | |
| Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 pagina’s
...Sardanapalus, but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.1 Five languages secured not the epitaph of Gordianus.2 The man of God lives longer without a tomb... | |
| Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pagina’s
...Sardanapalus. But the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. A group of writers who published about the middle of the century possess a charm and quaintness and... | |
| Jeremiah S. Finch - 1986 - 196 pagina’s
...Inscriptions like many in Gruter' , is annotated 'Gruteri Inscriptiones Antiques' ; the observation, 'Few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an Urne' is accompanied by the note, 'According to the Epitaph of Rufus and Beronica in Gruterus'. (KI,... | |
| David Carl - 2006 - 330 pagina’s
...Sardanapulus, but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn." Sir Thomas Browne, "Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial" In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni apophatic (adj.):... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagina’s
...but the wisedom of funerall Laws found the folly of prodigall blazes, and reduced undoing fires, unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be...mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an Urne. BARBARA ALLEN In Scarlet town where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin' Made every youth... | |
| 1870 - 588 pagina’s
...and to burn like Sardanapalus! but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires into the rule of sober obsequies,...not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. The lecturer then proceeded to give a description of the Yorkshire Wold Tumuli, and stated, that by... | |
| |