 | 1856 - 502 pages
...taking the gravestone for his faith to lean on, exclaims, with an intonation truly Miltonic, " Bat 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 ! " And with what a sublime burst... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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... | |
 | Buffalo (N.Y.). Forest Lawn Cemetery - 1867 - 188 pages
...that mysterious reunion of the soul and body which makes the resurrection, will be conserved by God. " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." But how far avail posthumous splendor and funeral pomp? A name may be perpetuated through time, but... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only (alone can) destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies...and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion.1 But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...were neither brave nor base, but comely. — FULLER. The Holy Slate, bk. IV. ch. 10, p. 270, ed. 1841. 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. — SIB T. BKOWNK. Hydriotaphia, ch.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...were neither brave nor base, but comely. — FULLER. The Holy State, bk. IV. ch. 10, p. 270, ed. 1841. 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. Eydriotaphia, ch.... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...all carthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous 5 memory. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. 6. Posthumous: an Imaginary derivation from post kumum has Imported an /;. into this word. It, in reality,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 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. 115, THOMAS FULLER. 1608-1661. (Manual, p. 179.) THE GOOD SCHOOLMASTER. From the " Holy State." There... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 592 pages
...fortitude and costly ceremony. "Man," says Sir Thomas Brown, though in quite a different spirit — " man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave; solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, even in the... | |
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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... 
