 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies i* names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein...frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scnpu in oblivion. Rut mnn is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, nnd pompous in the grave, solemnizing... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 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 duration....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 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 - 676 pages
...of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who can ouly destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised i:0 duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration... | |
 | 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 - 530 pages
...of either state after death mates a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies...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 - 448 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...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
...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...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... | |
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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... 
