 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 Seiten
...gloves; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | 1835 - 642 Seiten
...gloves; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea.' " ' Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, ' is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.' Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 Seiten
...gloves ; and also the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." "Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | 1835 - 430 Seiten
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 404 Seiten
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea.1' " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 Seiten
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
 | 1841 - 986 Seiten
...its success was derided by many of the miners of the adjacent coal-field." MONUMENTS TO THE DEAD. " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."— SIR TUOMAS BROWNE. THE practice of erecting monuments to the dead is of great antiquity. It is almost... | |
 | James Heywood Markland - 1840 - 56 Seiten
...MEMBEBS OP THE OXFOBD SOCIETY FOB PBOMOTING THE STUDY OP GOTHIC ABCHITECTUBE. BY JH MARKLAND, FRSSA Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing natjj-ities and deaths with equal lustre."—Sir T. Brown, Hydriotaphia, chap. v. OXFORD, JOHN HENBY... | |
 | 1840 - 520 Seiten
...and, for its especial purpose, tricks it out in the frippery of life. "Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre; nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 Seiten
...either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omiting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an... | |
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But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names... 
