 | Richard Penn Smith - 1856 - 338 pages
...his favorite child. Azib died, and, of course, was followed to the grave by an extended retinue. " Man is a noble animal; splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." After the funeral came a feast which was more speedly buried than poor Azib, for there is nothing like... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 448 pages
...after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1858 - 530 pages
...after death mates a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | Christian classics - 1858 - 870 pages
...after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath...boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration j and to hold long subsistence, scems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid... | |
 | Mrs. Robert Cartwright - 1859 - 282 pages
...after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection either of our bodies or names, hath...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 sufficeth for life,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 pages
...after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath...animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 pages
...after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath...boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and tn hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pages
...after death makes a folly of posthumous memory'. God. who can only destroy our pnuls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath...of chance, that the boldest expectants have found an unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a srape In oblivion. But man Is a n<»Me... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 466 pages
...after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath...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 sufficeth for life ;... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 468 pages
...onlyde^. stroy_our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath direcdj promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of...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 sufficeth for life ;... | |
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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 only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or... 
