Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and the Garden of CyrusMacmillan, 1896 - 208 pages |
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... of the earth , all parts might challenge a resti- tution , yet few have returned their bones far lower than they might receive them ; not 1 The rich mountain of Peru . CHAP . I. affecting the graves of giants , under.
... of the earth , all parts might challenge a resti- tution , yet few have returned their bones far lower than they might receive them ; not 1 The rich mountain of Peru . CHAP . I. affecting the graves of giants , under.
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Sir Thomas Browne William Alexander Greenhill. CHAP . I. affecting the graves of giants , under hilly and [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Two modes of disposing of the dead . [ 5 ] Burial the older . ( Gen. xxiii . heavy coverings , but content with less ...
Sir Thomas Browne William Alexander Greenhill. CHAP . I. affecting the graves of giants , under hilly and [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Two modes of disposing of the dead . [ 5 ] Burial the older . ( Gen. xxiii . heavy coverings , but content with less ...
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... affected , Practice of or strictly declined this practice . The Indian mins . Brachmans seemed too great friends unto fire , who burnt themselves alive , and thought it the noblest way to end their days in fire ; according to the ...
... affected , Practice of or strictly declined this practice . The Indian mins . Brachmans seemed too great friends unto fire , who burnt themselves alive , and thought it the noblest way to end their days in fire ; according to the ...
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... affected the sea for their grave ; thereby declining visible corruption , and restoring the debt of their bodies . Whereas the old heroes , in Homer , dreaded nothing more than water or drowning ; probably upon the old opinion of the ...
... affected the sea for their grave ; thereby declining visible corruption , and restoring the debt of their bodies . Whereas the old heroes , in Homer , dreaded nothing more than water or drowning ; probably upon the old opinion of the ...
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... affecting rather a depositure than absumption , and properly submitting unto the sentence of God , to return not unto ashes but unto dust again , conformable unto the practice 10 of the patriarchs , the interment of our Saviour , of ...
... affecting rather a depositure than absumption , and properly submitting unto the sentence of God , to return not unto ashes but unto dust again , conformable unto the practice 10 of the patriarchs , the interment of our Saviour , of ...
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Page 65 - But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself.
Page 63 - ... with the necessity of oblivion. Even old ambitions had the advantage of ours, in the attempts of their vainglories, who acting early, and before the probable meridian of time, have by this time found great accomplishment of their designs, whereby the ancient heroes have already outlasted their monuments -and mechanical preservations. But in this latter scene of time, we cannot expect such mummies unto our memories, when ambition may fear the prophecy of Elias, and Charles the Fifth can never...
Page 66 - Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 91 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 64 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 65 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
Page 62 - Job, who cursed not the day of his life, but his nativity; content to have so far been, as to have a title to future being, although he had lived here but in an hidden state of life, and as it were an abortion.
Page 60 - Now since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, out-worn all the strong and specious buildings above it ; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests : what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relicks, or might not gladly say, Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim...
Page 68 - In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below the moon : men have been deceived even in their flatteries above the sun, and studied conceits to perpetuate their names in heaven.
Page 63 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other.