 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...burial, taking the grave stone for his faith to lean on, and for his hope's moveless resting place — " But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." How stupendous is the following... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...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 hath...ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficedi for life,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who can only destroy our soub, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath...ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either J of our bodies or names hath direct!}' promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire suffice th for life,... | |
 | 1823 - 736 pages
...Hect.-r. . . " And therefore restlesse inquietude they all relate. for the diuturnity of our memories unto found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence,...ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature."— pp. 28, 29. The following brief citation ies unto our merauneo, «!..;,, a.*.- will not unaptly conclude... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 528 pages
...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 rt'ason for which is explained by another author, in words still more... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 hath...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small tire sutficeth for life, great... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1823 - 684 pages
...posthumous memory. God, who can onely destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, cither of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration....of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhnppy frustration ; ami to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape fa oblivion. But man is * noble... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who only can destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...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 hath...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature ! i < Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life... | |
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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... 
