 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...only destroy our souls, and hath assured our rnurrection, either of our bodies or names hath Jirectly promised no duration ; wherein there is so much of...expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistMicc seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous... | |
 | 1884 - 874 pages
...extracts, might seem stilted, and even meretricious in its splendid glare of diction, as thus :—" But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." But the reader must not suppose that such passages fairly represent what he is to expect from these... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies i* names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein...frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scnpu in oblivion. Rut mnn is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, nnd pompous in the grave, solemnizing... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants havo found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised i:0 duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that...But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompons in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies... | |
 | Richard Penn Smith - 1856 - 338 pages
...his favorite child. Azib died, and, of course, was followed to the grave by an extended retinue. " Man is a noble animal; splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." After the funeral came a feast which was more speedly buried than poor Azib, for there is nothing like... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 448 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...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 530 pages
...after death mates a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 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...boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration j and to hold long subsistence, scems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid... | |
 | Mrs. Robert Cartwright - England - 1859 - 282 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,... | |
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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... 
