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" 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. "
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a ... - Page 37
by Sir Thomas Browne - 1852
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...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...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
...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
...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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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

1826 - 548 pages
...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 sun within...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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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...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...of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not'to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.* Five languages t secured not the epitaph of Gordianus....
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 pages
...and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy of his nature.3 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within...blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober olbsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an urn.* Five...
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Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 pages
...and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.3 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within...us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames s%emed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, 3 Man isanoblt animal, Sfc.]...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...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...great flames seemed too little after death, while nei rainly affected precious pyres, and to burn like Sonlonapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral laws...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...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...too little after death, while men vainly affected furious fires, and to burn like Sardanapalus ; but the wisdom of funeral laws found the folly of prodigal...
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