Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and the Garden of CyrusMacmillan, 1896 - 208 pages |
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... seeds . 171. Whether ivy would do less injury in this arrangement ? 172. Great variety afforded by this order . 178. Grateful to the eye by its regular green shade . 181. Seeds lie in perpetual shade . 182. The order is agree- able to ...
... seeds . 171. Whether ivy would do less injury in this arrangement ? 172. Great variety afforded by this order . 178. Grateful to the eye by its regular green shade . 181. Seeds lie in perpetual shade . 182. The order is agree- able to ...
Page 101
... seed- some fruits ; sea - weeds . The same is observably effected in the jülus , [ 4 ] catkins , or pendulous ... seeds about the spicous head or torch of thapsus barbatus , in as fair a regularity as the circular and wreathed ...
... seed- some fruits ; sea - weeds . The same is observably effected in the jülus , [ 4 ] catkins , or pendulous ... seeds about the spicous head or torch of thapsus barbatus , in as fair a regularity as the circular and wreathed ...
Page 107
... makes out the Roman order . A like ordination there is in the favaginous [ 10 ] 1 1 Jer . ii . 22 ; Mal . iii 2 . 2 Stratiotes [ orρATITηS ] . CHAP . III . sockets , and lozenge seeds of QUINCUNX NATURALLY CONSIDERED . 107.
... makes out the Roman order . A like ordination there is in the favaginous [ 10 ] 1 1 Jer . ii . 22 ; Mal . iii 2 . 2 Stratiotes [ orρATITηS ] . CHAP . III . sockets , and lozenge seeds of QUINCUNX NATURALLY CONSIDERED . 107.
Page 108
... seeds below them . [ 12 ] The like so often occurreth to the curiosity [ 13 ] of observers , especially in spicated seeds and flowers , that we shall not need to take in the single quincunx of Fuchsius in the growth of 127 the male fern ...
... seeds below them . [ 12 ] The like so often occurreth to the curiosity [ 13 ] of observers , especially in spicated seeds and flowers , that we shall not need to take in the single quincunx of Fuchsius in the growth of 127 the male fern ...
Page 109
... leaves without all order unto them , and he that from hence can discover in what position the two first leaves did arise , is no ordinary observator . [ 17 ] In the rudi- mental spring of seeds QUINCUNX NATURALLY CONSIDERED . 109.
... leaves without all order unto them , and he that from hence can discover in what position the two first leaves did arise , is no ordinary observator . [ 17 ] In the rudi- mental spring of seeds QUINCUNX NATURALLY CONSIDERED . 109.
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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.