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" ... 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 10
geredigeerd door - 1830
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 348 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.* Five languages t secured not the epitaph of Gordianus. The man of God lives longer without a tomb than...
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