Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and the Garden of CyrusMacmillan, 1896 - 208 pages |
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... senses . But the long habit of living indisposeth 71 us for dying ; when avarice makes us the sport of death , when even David grew politickly cruel , and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men . But many are too early old ...
... senses . But the long habit of living indisposeth 71 us for dying ; when avarice makes us the sport of death , when even David grew politickly cruel , and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men . But many are too early old ...
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... Sense endureth no extremities , and sorrows destroy us or themselves . To weep into stones are fables . Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery , or fall like snow upon us , which 1 Before the flood . 2 Euripides ...
... Sense endureth no extremities , and sorrows destroy us or themselves . To weep into stones are fables . Afflictions induce callosities ; miseries are slippery , or fall like snow upon us , which 1 Before the flood . 2 Euripides ...
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... senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances , our sorrows are not ] kept raw by the edge of repetitions . A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of sub- sistency with a transmigration of their souls , — a good way to ...
... senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances , our sorrows are not ] kept raw by the edge of repetitions . A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of sub- sistency with a transmigration of their souls , — a good way to ...
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... sense and vegetation ; and the central decussation , the wondrous con- nection of the several faculties conjointly in one substance . And so conjoined the unity and duality of the soul , and made out the three substances so much ...
... sense and vegetation ; and the central decussation , the wondrous con- nection of the several faculties conjointly in one substance . And so conjoined the unity and duality of the soul , and made out the three substances so much ...
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... sense of that obscure expression of Hesiod1 , and afford no improbable reason why Plato admitted his nuptial guests by fives , in the kindred of the married couple 2 . And though a sharper mystery might be [ 5 ] implied in the number of ...
... sense of that obscure expression of Hesiod1 , and afford no improbable reason why Plato admitted his nuptial guests by fives , in the kindred of the married couple 2 . And though a sharper mystery might be [ 5 ] implied in the number 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.