 | David Hoffman - 1841 - 382 pages
...ejaculations — requiescat in pace — sit ilia terra levis ! Well may we say with Sir Thomas Brown — 'Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.' It were indeed, a vain hope, by... | |
 | Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar - 1841 - 426 pages
...sun to paint of all hues and shades, from the quietest grey to the most gorgeous purple. CHAPTER X. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. SIR THOMAS BROWNB. En songeant quelquefois aux elucubrations auxquelles la latitude de mon sujet m'a... | |
 | James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 pages
...AND ON THE EXPEDIENCY OF RENDERING SUBSERVIENT TO PIOUS AND CHRISTIAN USES BY JH MARKLAND, FRS & SA Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solem nizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, SIR T. BROWNE, OXFORD, JOHN HENRY PARKER: OF... | |
 | 1866 - 956 pages
...earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory, — yet man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery even in the infamy of his nature." Two mighty pens — the one in the hand of Edmund Burke, the other... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our résurrection, rU nPz xSŻQ~ f b B j # rk C 3q ~ ؟ mach of chance, that the boldest expectants have f -unj unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...grandest efforts of mind or hand after ' a diuturnity of memory.' To baffle the powers of Death has been * 'Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grnve, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
 | William Mitchell Gillespie - 1845 - 230 pages
...deeply. The subtlety of this distinction is worthy of a Jesuit. V. A DAY AMONG THE TOMBS OF ROME. " MAN is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave," and most splendid and pompous of all mankind were the ancient Romans. Their Emperors raised gigantic... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...either state after i death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, ing, I'll visit you : if not, Faustus is gone to hell....one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd ргате, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lu~tre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery... | |
 | 1848 - 574 pages
...after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who^can'only destroy our souls, and Jiath^assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is much of chance that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence... | |
 | 1874 - 714 pages
...individuals hope for immortality, or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below the moon. . . . . Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest...in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in »shes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting... | |
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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 names... 
