 | 1861 - 716 pages
...Had they made as good provision for their names as they have done for their relics, they had not BO grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is s fallacy in duration. . . . Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...provision for their names as they have done for their relire, they had not so grossly erred in the »rt neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein,...serencst sky that ever I saw, being without all cloud, vain-glory, and maddening vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - 1844 - 486 pages
...prospect. One wants to be quiet. ' To subsist in bones,' saith my old friend, Sir Thomas Browne, ' and to be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration....posterity, as emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes of pride. Oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men, without distinction... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 pages
...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....emblems of mortal vanities; antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names as they have dune fur their relics, nd take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,...books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and vain-glory, and maddening vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, hod... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names as they have done for their relics, hods t@ ! vain-glory, and maddening vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1849 - 238 pages
...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and si-xes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto late posterity, as... | |
 | 1850 - 342 pages
...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....only arise unto late posterity as emblems of mortal vanity, antidotes against pride, vainglory, and madding vices.' * It is one of the effects of this... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1851 - 364 pages
...great unknown; " Had they made so good provision for their names, as they have done for their relicks, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in boiies, to be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration." And farther on, referring to tombs... | |
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... to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which, in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto late posterity as emblems... 
