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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... "
Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth - Page 298
by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 218 pages
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature: And British and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 pages
...«-ho can only 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....
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Christian Classics... with Notices Biographical and Critical, Volume 3

James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 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...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 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 ; and tn hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes,...
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pages
...either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory'. God. who can only destroy our pnuls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies...of chance, that the boldest expectants have found an unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a srape In oblivion. But man Is a n<»Me...
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A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from ...

Richard Chenevix Trench - 1859 - 234 pages
...grace some great man with his service, and then he blusheth at his own bravery, Id., 76. b. ii. c. 18. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia* There...
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Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 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...in ashes, | and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativii ties and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his...
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Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 468 pages
...either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can onlyde^. stroy_our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath direcdj promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...be any thing in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus." Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. **M*M>, PRIDE. I thank God amongst those millions of vices I do inherit and nold from Adam, I have...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 pages
...now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise; Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balzams.... Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities avant dans la science 1 . En présence des productions naturelles, il fourmille...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...
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