 | 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...ma Cumberland truly nays of turn, "He forced Lntinlams into his lines. Like raw, undriU'd recruits." 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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 duration. * * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattcreth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...UioiiRh, doubtless, too often big, SUIT, and Ay,<:-ijri \utr."— Colerklyi. 400 BROWNE. [CHARLES n. 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... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pages
...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relicks, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto * One night as long as three. t The pnzzling questions of Tiberius' tmto grammarians. — Marcel. Danalm... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...tutela.-y observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as (kty nave done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extr nt. if a fallacy in duration. * • * * si nee bad have equal durations; and Thersites is like... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 pages
...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 duration. * * * * since bad have equal durations ; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 pages
...resolved by man. . . . 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 maddening vices." * The delightful author, it is hardly necessary for me to say, of... | |
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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... 
