 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 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...splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing * Upon this profanation of applying mummies " to *iase medical uses,' the author has a similar idea,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Biography as a literary form - 1876 - 404 pages
...the registry of God, not in the record of man. There is nothing strictly immortal but immortality ! But man is a noble animal — splendid in ashes, and...nativities and deaths, with equal lustre ; nor omitting the ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." Biography presents many instances for the consolation... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...memory. God, who <-an only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, eithei 01 our bod1es or names hath directly promised no duration. Wherein...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 sufflceth for life,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1878 - 488 pages
...and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery1 in the infamy 2 of his nature. 6 Callosity is callousness, — a thickening and hardening... | |
 | Lancashire historical notes - 1879 - 454 pages
...grandfather came' about the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. " — Life, p. ii. them : " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of bis nature."' (Hydriotaphia, cap. v.) Very many of Ryley"a certificates from 1634 to 1040, are in the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...death makes a folly of posthumous memory. *>,i,l, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath...of chance, that the boldest expectants have found nnhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...rt82.] SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 211 and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names bath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so...hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. Bat man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompons in the grave, solemnizing nativities and... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...essence that cannot destroy itself, and the highest strain of omnipotency to be so powerfully constituted as not to suffer even from the power of itself: all...and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and death with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. — SIR THOMAS... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured lying by solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1882 - 220 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 sufficeth for life, great... | |
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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... 
