 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 páginas
...immortal but immortality " ? "Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us, for man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." And then he gives that exquisite and oftenquoted passage, " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1886 - 542 páginas
...Take yet another — " The brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes." And another — " But man is a noble animal, splendid \ in ashes, and...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infirmity of his nature." ^guch_sentences, Cthe common warp and woof of Urn Burial, match with their... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 páginas
...after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured = > ? @ A O P solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 páginas
...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...frustration; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape irt oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities... | |
 | William Parmly Dunn - 1926 - 210 páginas
...But the promise is not fulfilled and each time Browne drops back into his dirge-like measures. — "But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature"; and "A small fire suffketh for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected... | |
 | Louise Dudley - 1928 - 416 páginas
...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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 páginas
...and we all therein but Pantaloons and Antics to my severer contemplations. Sir Thomas Browne, R, 88. MAN is a noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Ibid., U, 29. MANKIND is a tribe of animals, living by habits and thinking in symbols; and it can never... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1866 - 556 páginas
...earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory, — yet man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery even in the infamy of his nature." Two mighty pens — the one in the hand of Edmund Burke, the other... | |
 | Université de Strasbourg. Faculté des lettres - 1925 - 352 páginas
...duration ; wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest cxpectants have found unhappy frustation, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 páginas
...makes a folly of posthumous memory. God who can only [ie, alone] destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath...the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. (Pp. 312-13) The solemnity... | |
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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... 
