| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 Seiten
...the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers. * * * Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard «nder ground, and thin wqlls of cfcy, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it; and... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 Seiten
...the next, whereof metbinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers. * * * Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it ; and... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 Seiten
...these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and spacious buildings above it ; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests ; what prince can promise such... | |
| 1820 - 774 Seiten
...chapter of his Umburial. " Now that these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of the Methuselah, and in a yard underground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong ind spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests,... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 Seiten
...thing be said of the ruins of Babylon equal to the following celebration of a few sepulchral urns ? " Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above it ; and... | |
| 1820 - 394 Seiten
...these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above it; and quietly rested under 'the drums and tramplings of three conquests: what prince can promise such... | |
| 1820 - 784 Seiten
...underground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests, what prince can pron.ise such diuturnity unto his relics, and might not gladly say, " Sic ego componi versus in ossa... | |
| 1825 - 620 Seiten
...Browne's noblest essay, '• had outlasted the living ones of Methusalem, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests." Superstition chooses the... | |
| 1825 - 648 Seiten
...Browne's noblest essay, " had outlasted the living ones of Methusalem, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above them, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests." Superstition chooses the... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...funeral-rites, or as an emblem of resurrection from its perpetual verdure, may also admit conjecture. . CHAP. V. Now since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methusaleh, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and specious... | |
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