 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 238 pages
...of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, cither of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no...frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scaps in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, rinted in one volume at Wurzburg in 1595. One of the sermons was a fu Jirectly promised no duration ; wherein there ¡9 so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath airectly d than to God's glory, by the honour and instruction of my country. For which cause, scupe in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 pages
...writer, which our yesterday's vibit has recalled to my memory. Sir Thomas Brown says, ' Man is a nobk' animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave...equal lustre — nor omitting ceremonies of bravery even in the infamy of his nature.' " The count replied to my quotation, — " How universal is this... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1658 - 602 pages
...vanitas et pastio renti, vopi} &vifiov KOI floanriaig, utolim Aquila et Symmachus. v. Drus. Eccles. resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly...is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous 1 in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal / lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 572 pages
...either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. G-od who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies...seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble" animal,"§plendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 1046 pages
...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...subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man ia a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...only destroy our souls, and hath assured our rnurrection, either of our bodies or names hath Jirectly promised no duration ; wherein there is so much of...expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistMicc seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 330 pages
...for its especial purpose, tricks it out in the frippery of life. " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre ; nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Douglas William Jerrold - 1853 - 328 pages
...for its especial purpose, tricks it out in the frippery of life. " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre ; nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
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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... 
