| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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...boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration; arid to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a nobl* animal, splendid in... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...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...so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have fotmd unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...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, tither of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...gloves ; also the bu. lial 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... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...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...subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noblt animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...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 J of our bodies or names hath direct!}' promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that... | |
| 1821 - 770 pages
...vows were paid. We are surrounded with the magnificence of death, and the trophies of departed glory. "Man is a noble animal; splendid in ashes, and pompous in the dust, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the... | |
| 1821 - 772 pages
...were paid. We are surrounded with the magnificence of death, and the trophies of departed glory. " Man is a noble animal ; splendid in ashes, and pompous in the dust, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the... | |
| Congregationalism - 1823 - 684 pages
...posthumous memory. God, who can onely destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, cither of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration....of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhnppy frustration ; ami to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape fa oblivion. But man is * noble... | |
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