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... thought fit to give , we must be content , and remember , that in all sublunary things there is something to be wished which we must wish in vain . This book , like his former , was received with great applause , was answered by ...
... thought fit to give , we must be content , and remember , that in all sublunary things there is something to be wished which we must wish in vain . This book , like his former , was received with great applause , was answered by ...
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... thought it most safe so to do , though he never loaded himself with such a multitude of gar- ments as Suetonius reports of Augustus , enough to clothe a good family . " The horizon of his understanding was much larger than OF SIR THOMAS ...
... thought it most safe so to do , though he never loaded himself with such a multitude of gar- ments as Suetonius reports of Augustus , enough to clothe a good family . " The horizon of his understanding was much larger than OF SIR THOMAS ...
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... thought the use of them would not answer the time and pains of learning them ; yet had so great a ven- eration for the matrix of them , viz . the Hebrew , con- secrated to the oracles of God , that he was not con- tent to be totally ...
... thought the use of them would not answer the time and pains of learning them ; yet had so great a ven- eration for the matrix of them , viz . the Hebrew , con- secrated to the oracles of God , that he was not con- tent to be totally ...
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... wild opinions like these Epicures ; For so their staggering thoughts are computed , And other men's assent their doubt assures . " DAVIES . xxxii LIFE OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . he is laboring OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . xxxi.
... wild opinions like these Epicures ; For so their staggering thoughts are computed , And other men's assent their doubt assures . " DAVIES . xxxii LIFE OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . he is laboring OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE . xxxi.
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... , but scarce with the thought or memory of my Saviour . I cannot laugh at , but rather pity the fruitless journeys of pilgrims , or contemn the miserable condition of friars ; for though misplaced in 10 RELIGIO MEDICI .
... , but scarce with the thought or memory of my Saviour . I cannot laugh at , but rather pity the fruitless journeys of pilgrims , or contemn the miserable condition of friars ; for though misplaced in 10 RELIGIO MEDICI .
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Page 222 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Page 218 - 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. But 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 of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices.
Page 221 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity ; who can but pity the founder of the pyramids ? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it: time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself.
Page 220 - To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.
Page 299 - Light that makes things seen, makes some things invisible : were it not for darkness and the shadow of the earth, the noblest part of the creation had remained unseen, and the stars in heaven as invisible as on the fourth day, when they were created above the horizon with the sun, or there was not an eye to behold them.
Page 217 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial...
Page 222 - ... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes...
Page 216 - If the nearness of our last necessity brought a nearer conformity unto it, there were a happiness in hoary hairs, and no calamity in half -senses. But the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying ; when avarice makes us the sport of death, when even David grew politicly cruel, and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men.
Page 223 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and, our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Page 219 - ... of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in their persons. One face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designs.