 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...bis style Mia dMton, thongb, doubtless, too often big, sUff, and «jj«rWah«i««»-."-O>ltridj<. they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...tutelary obs"ervators. 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... | |
 | 1859 - 356 pages
...good men made such safe provision for their names as they did for their bodies, they would not have so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation ; but to subsist in bones and irons, and to be but pyramidically extant, is a fallacy in the art of perpetuity. The most tedious... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 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... | |
 | 1861 - 716 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....but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duratio'n. . . . Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory and wild enormities of... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 pages
...Marcel. Donatus in Suet, t KXvra fdvfa vfitpGiv. Hom. Job. 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, vainglory, and madding vices. Pagan vainglories, which thought the world might last forever, had encouragement... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1862 - 410 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, vainglory, and madding vices." * But there are passages worth finding in books less promising than... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 484 pages
...Marcel. Donatus in Suet. t KXura (dvta Vficp&v. HOIn. Job. names as they have done for their relies, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto lauposterity, as emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vainglory, and madding vices.... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1863 - 428 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, vainglory, and madding But there are passages worth finding in books less promising than the works... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1863 - 444 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....themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise onto late posterity as emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vainglory, and madding... | |
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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... 
