 | Cornelius Walford - 1878 - 660 pages
...Burial; written in a very quaint style, with a great many classical allusions. The author says : " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." 1660. — Francis Tate, a lawyer and antiquary, pub. : Antiquity, Variety, and Ceremonies of Funerals... | |
 | William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 582 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 equ:J lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, even in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...neither brave nor base, but comely. — FULLIV.. 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. — SIR T. BROWNE. Eydriotaphia, ch.... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 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...hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there ia eo much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long... | |
 | Henry Sampson - 1874 - 716 pages
...of death thrust upon them. Sir Thomas Browne, who professed to know all about mortality, says that " man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up the handbill was certainly aware of the craving which exists in many minds, especially... | |
 | Henry Sampson - 1874 - 670 pages
...of death thrust upon them. Sir Thomas Browne, who professed to know all about mortality, says that " man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up the handbill was certainly aware of the craving which exists in many minds, especially... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 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...splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing * Upon this profanation of applying mummies " to *iase medical uses,' the author has a similar idea,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 412 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...splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing * Upon this profanation of applying mummies " to 'iase medical uses," tho author has a similar idea,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...lay my head On my grave as now my bed Ibid. Part\\. Sec. 12. Ruat ccelum, fiat voluntas tua.4 ibid. Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave. Urn-Burial. Ch. v. 1 From Napier's Mem. of Montrosc, Vol. \. Aff. xxxiv. That puts it not unto the... | |
 | Université de Strasbourg. Faculté des lettres - 1925 - 352 pages
...our souls, and hath assured our ressurection, either of our bodies or namcs hath directly proluised no duration ; wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest cxpectants have found unhappy frustation, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion.... | |
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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... 
