 But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto late posterity, as emblems...  The Saunterer - Page 295by Charles Goodrich Whiting - 1886 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duratiov — vaiu ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persons, times,....antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle* must... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain si which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and...antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-l,ined- circle* must... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain ashes, which in the oblivioifof names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto...emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glorv, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...to subsist in. bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain ashes. winch in the oblivion of names, persons, times,. and sexes,...antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle* must... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation; but to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant,...emblems of mortal vanities; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain glories which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant,...emblems of mortal vanities ; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...as they have done for their refiques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant,...emblems of mortal vanities ; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought (he world might last for ever, had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant,...duration. Vain ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persous, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves, a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - 1824 - 496 pages
...cabinet, as if to proclaim the transitory nature of mortal glory, and the vanity of human greatness. " Vain ashes! which in the oblivion of names, persons,...unto late posterity as emblems of mortal vanities'." 1 Vide Douglas' Letter in Prov. Mag., No. 1. * Horda Angel-Cynnan, vol. 1., p. 64. 3 Brown's Hydriot.... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant,...emblems, of mortal vanities ; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain glories which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
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