 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicament... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, cither of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants havo found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 440 pages
...and 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 Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of" posthumous memory. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicament... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 448 pages
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 530 pages
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 pages
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration j and to hold long subsistence, scems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 pages
...destroy our e»uls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or nsmi^s hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there Is so much of chance, that the boldest expectimts have found an unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape ID oblivion.... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 pages
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Université de Strasbourg. Faculté des lettres - 1925 - 352 pages
...our souls, and hath assured our ressurection, either of our bodies or namcs hath directly proluised no duration ; wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest cxpectants have found unhappy frustation, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion.... | |
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But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. 
