...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 put pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion of names, persons,...

...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vainglory and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement...

...for their names, as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art or perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but...and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement for ambition, and finding no Atropos unto the immortality...

...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....continuation, and only arise unto late posterity as emblems of mor. til vanities, antidotes against pride, vainglory, and madding vices. How charmingly he clothes...

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...deliberately chosen and arranged for a beautiful rhythmic effect. Here is a scrap taken at random: "But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration." One cannot fail to realize the lovely rhythm, so different from that of poetry. This again from the...

...Thomas Browne : " Had they made as good provjsion for their names as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration." Eral, "the rising ground" (population 4,920): is the name given to a locality now forming a union and...

...well-known passage beginning "What Song the Syrens sang, . . ." which includes the remarkable sentence: "But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration." The Garden of Cyrus, in its riot of speculation concerning the quincunx pattern in heaven and earth,...

...ancient urns: Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relicks, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.17 "Tlon" is Borges's urn: It contains his personality, especially the idealist philosopher...