| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duratiov — vaiu ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persons, times,....vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain si which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and...vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-l,ined-... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain ashes, which in the oblivioifof names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto...emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glorv, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...to subsist in. bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain ashes. winch in the oblivion of names, persons, times,. and sexes,...vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined... | |
| 1820 - 394 pages
...reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation; but to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain...emblems of mortal vanities; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain glories which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation; but to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain...emblems of mortal vanities; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain glories which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...refiques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain...emblems of mortal vanities ; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought (he world might last for ever, had... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain...emblems of mortal vanities ; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persous, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves, a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto... | |
| Thomas Walker Horsfield - 1824 - 496 pages
...cabinet, as if to proclaim the transitory nature of mortal glory, and the vanity of human greatness. " Vain ashes! which in the oblivion of names, persons,...unto late posterity as emblems of mortal vanities'." 1 Vide Douglas' Letter in Prov. Mag., No. 1. * Horda Angel-Cynnan, vol. 1., p. 64. 3 Brown's Hydriot.... | |
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