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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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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 574 pages
...solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of bis nature.3 Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire suffieeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1658 - 602 pages
...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. J A. small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too™* little after death, while men vainly...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 572 pages
...nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.3 v Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun withinN. us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too ' little after death, while men...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in fa '„,. SHHV of his nature. " Lifr is a pure flam*, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire suffi'-elh Itir life, great flames sremrd too hub: afler death, while men vainly affected precious...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 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 Bufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected furious fires,...
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Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines, Volume 3

James Hamilton - 1858 - 448 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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Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with ..., Volume 3

James Hamilton - 1858 - 530 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 sufflceth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious...
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Our Christian classics: readings from the best divines, with ..., Volumes 3-4

Christian classics - 1858 - 870 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 sufflceth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious...
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Christian Classics... with Notices Biographical and Critical, Volume 3

James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 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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Pilgrim Walks: a Chaplet of Memories

Mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1859 - 282 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...affected precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapalus." It is to secret and half acknowledged ideas of this sort we must refer the longing shown by all nations...
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