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" Sardanapalus, but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires, unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. "
Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of ... - Page 494
by Sir Thomas Browne - 1835
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible...death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and to bum like Sardanapalus; but the widom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficedi for life, great flames seemed too little after death,...precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapalus; but the widom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. " Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire suffice th for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small tire sutficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible...blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.* Five...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

1826 - 548 pages
...and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature ! i < Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible...death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and burned like Sardanapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal blazes, and reduced...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

1826 - 548 pages
...life; great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and burned like Sardanapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral laws...blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. * * *...
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The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne

1831 - 370 pages
...nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible...blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.* Five...
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible...blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not'to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.* Five...
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Cemetery interment

George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 pages
...nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible...and reduced undoing fires, unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn. Five...
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