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... Quarterly Essays - Page 163by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 389 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...power of itself: But the sufficiency of christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly...boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration; arid to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a nobl* animal, splendid in... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...power of itself. But the sufficiency of christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly...so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have fotmd unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...power of itself. But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly...destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, tither of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance,... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...power of itself. But the sufficiency of christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory; and the quality of either state after death makes a folly...subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noblt animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal... | |
| 1831 - 602 pages
...account of time ? — The sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...power of itself. But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly...our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either J of our bodies or names hath direct!}' promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...power of itself. 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 soub, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration.... | |
| 1823 - 684 pages
...power of itself. 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 onely destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, cither of our bodies or names hath directly... | |
| 1826 - 548 pages
...sufficiency of christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either slate after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God,...much of chance that the boldest expectants have found unhappy-frustration, and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...of destruction. 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 only can destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly... | |
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