 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...either state after i death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, ing, I'll visit you : if not, Faustus is gone to hell....one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damn'd ргате, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lu~tre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery... | |
 | 1848 - 574 pages
...after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who^can'only destroy our souls, and Jiath^assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is much of chance that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence... | |
 | 1874 - 714 pages
...individuals hope for immortality, or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below the moon. . . . . Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest...in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in »shes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1850 - 652 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | 1874 - 570 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | English - 1851 - 524 pages
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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... 
