 To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief.  The Quarterly review - Page 3601819Full view - About this book
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 484 pages
...lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysium. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief. To live indeed, is to be again... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their... | |
 | 1856 - 502 pages
...the infamy of his nature ! " And with what a sublime burst of enthusiastic rapture does he close ! " To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave ; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1868 - 438 pages
...arches, obelisks, those irregularities of vainglory and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity." " To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, were large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pages
...handsome anticipation of heaven ; the glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their... | |
 | William Spalding - 1872 - 482 pages
...was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of preordination and night of their fore-beings. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...lasting monuments, to live in their productions, 1ยป exist in their names, and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysimns. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief. To live indeed is to be again... | |
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