| George Burnett - 1807 - Počet stránok 548
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, tither of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape iri oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the gravej solemnizing nativities... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - Počet stránok 556
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no. duration. Wherein there is so much of...boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration; arid to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a nobl* animal, splendid in... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - Počet stránok 1152
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have fotmd unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1811 - Počet stránok 510
...gloves ; also the bu. lial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in. the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - Počet stránok 546
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection; either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noblt animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal... | |
| General history - 1814 - Počet stránok 798
...important than eloquence, in the words of an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infancy of his nature ;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words Mill more... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1815 - Počet stránok 550
...an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, jsplendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infancy of his nature;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words still more... | |
| 1831 - Počet stránok 602
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." Dr. Gooch. — In the autumn of 1822, Gooch made a tour through North Wales; and on his return passed... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - Počet stránok 288
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - Počet stránok 592
...being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.' * Man/ says the same writer, ' is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of his nature.' It is indeed worthy of notice, that the Caffres are the only savages who have... | |
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