 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 580 Seiten
...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relicks, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. Pagan vainglories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 Seiten
...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relicks, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. Pagan vainglories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 572 Seiten
...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relicks, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in durationl— -Vain ashes which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 Seiten
...as they have done tor their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. Itut to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ache«, which, in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 Seiten
...tutelary obscrvators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relies, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion of uames, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...Cumberland truly snys of htm, "lie foreetl Latlnlsma Into hh line-*, Like raw, nntlruTd recrulta." they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scatteroth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...as good provision for their names, as t|iey have done for their relics, 300 BROWNE. [CHARLES n. .hey had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattered! her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | William Maginn - 1857 - 524 Seiten
...the old moralist, and had felt with him, that we must all ' make provision for our names,' because, 'to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.' Had Maginn thought thus he would have saved himself many a heart-sickening pang, many a weary hour... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 Seiten
...the old moralist, and had felt with him, that we must all ' make provision for our names,' because, ' to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.' Had Maginn thought thus he would have saved himself many a heart-sickening pang, many a weary hour... | |
 | 1858 - 746 Seiten
...tutelarj- observators. 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....oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have formed unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto late posterity as emblems of mortal... | |
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... 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 fruitless continuation, and only arise unto late posterity as emblems... 
