 | Robert Southey - 1829 - 456 sider
...dress had been, in the same journal, scarce eighteen months before. " Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." These things led me in spirit to the vault, and I thought of the memorable dead among whom her mortal... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1830 - 432 sider
...dress, had been in the same journal scarce eighteen months before. "Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, ' is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." On the introduction of the second person in the dialogue, the author continues, " He asked me, if I... | |
 | 1830 - 550 sider
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy o£ his nature." WHY THE HANGMAN 18 CALLED JACK KETCH. IN 1 664, Dun was the name of the public executioner,... | |
 | 1831 - 370 sider
...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 hath...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life ;... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 sider
...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 hath...omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.3 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for... | |
 | 1836 - 640 sider
...earthly glory ; and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory.' ' But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. • "—pp. 336, 337. ART. VIII.—Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the site of Ancient... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 sider
...earthly glory ; and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory." " But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." To this treatise on Urn-burial, the author added another upon " the Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunxial... | |
 | 1836 - 694 sider
...words, that " there is nothing strictly immortal but immortality." But, mortal, be not discouraged. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of hia nature." Indeed, the last chapter of the Urn burial, (from whichlhe above extracts are... | |
 | 1837 - 568 sider
...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...much of chance that the boldest expectants have found un . ' happy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a ' scape ia oblivion. But man is... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 sider
...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, hath...ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great... | |
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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... 
