| Half hours - 1856 - 676 páginas
...tutelary obscrvators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relies, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion of uames, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...not easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, 1 Hot Dr. Johnson himself did not ncrunlc to transfer to his own pages many of Brownc'a ponjfrrOD»... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...as good provision for their names, as t|iey have done for their relics, 300 BROWNE. [CHARLES n. .hey had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. * * * But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattered! her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
| William Maginn - 1857 - 524 páginas
...the old moralist, and had felt with him, that we must all ' make provision for our names,' because, 'to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.' Had Maginn thought thus he would have saved himself many a heart-sickening pang, many a weary hour... | |
| William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 páginas
...the old moralist, and had felt with him, that we must all ' make provision for our names,' because, ' to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.' Had Maginn thought thus he would have saved himself many a heart-sickening pang, many a weary hour... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 páginas
...not easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, 1 But Dr. Johnson himself did not ecraple to transfer to bis own pa^o many of Browno'i pondci... | |
| 1858 - 746 páginas
...nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the principal guardians, or tutelarj- 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 to subsist in bones, and be but... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 páginas
...easily, perhaps, by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or tutelary obs"ervators. 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 to subsist in bones, and be but... | |
| 1859 - 356 páginas
...good men made such safe provision for their names as they did for their bodies, they would not have so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation ; but to subsist in bones and irons, and to be but pyramidically extant, is a fallacy in the art of perpetuity. The most tedious... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 páginas
...nor easily, perhaps, by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or 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 to subsist in bones, and be but... | |
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