The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondenceH. G. Bohn, 1852 |
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... hold a present trial from their black and white angels in the grave ; which they must have made so hollow , that they may rise upon their knees . The Jewish nation , though they entertained the old way of inhumation , yet sometimes ...
... hold a present trial from their black and white angels in the grave ; which they must have made so hollow , that they may rise upon their knees . The Jewish nation , though they entertained the old way of inhumation , yet sometimes ...
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... hold but a wavering conjecture . Civilians make sepulture but of the law of nations , others do naturally found it and discover it also in animals . They that are so thick - skinned as still to credit the story of the Phoenix , may say ...
... hold but a wavering conjecture . Civilians make sepulture but of the law of nations , others do naturally found it and discover it also in animals . They that are so thick - skinned as still to credit the story of the Phoenix , may say ...
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... hold no authentic account ; for after Tertullian , in the days of Minucius , it was obviously objected upon Christians , that they condemned the practice of burn- ing . And we find a passage in Sidonius , + which asserteth that practice ...
... hold no authentic account ; for after Tertullian , in the days of Minucius , it was obviously objected upon Christians , that they condemned the practice of burn- ing . And we find a passage in Sidonius , + which asserteth that practice ...
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... hold not its original from ancient funeral rites , or as an emblem of resurrection , from its perpetual verdure , may also admit conjecture . They made use of musick to excite or quiet the affections of their friends , according to ...
... hold not its original from ancient funeral rites , or as an emblem of resurrection , from its perpetual verdure , may also admit conjecture . They made use of musick to excite or quiet the affections of their friends , according to ...
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... holds no consideration unto a slender time to come ) they had no small disadvantage from the constitution of old age , which naturally makes men fear- ful , and complexionally superannuated from the bold and courageous thoughts of youth ...
... holds no consideration unto a slender time to come ) they had no small disadvantage from the constitution of old age , which naturally makes men fear- ful , and complexionally superannuated from the bold and courageous thoughts of youth ...
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Page 37 - 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...
Page 166 - Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen ; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Page 146 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together...
Page 37 - 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 Urne.
Page 157 - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
Page 175 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Page 35 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 188 - Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.
Page 158 - And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness ; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
Page 33 - Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. 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.