| John Bull - 1825 - 782 pages
...gloves; also the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." AVhoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and... | |
| 1826 - 548 pages
...frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either slate after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath...much of chance that the boldest expectants have found unhappy-frustration, and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble... | |
| 1826 - 488 pages
...; also the burial fees to be paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne , " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| 1820 - 398 pages
...burial, taking the grave stone for his faith to lean on, and for his hope's moveless resting place — " But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grace, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, and not omitting ceremonies of bravery... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1828 - 266 pages
...gloves; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...state after death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and Imth + thai, the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but... | |
| William Godwin - 1831 - 504 pages
...remained inaccessible to the weaknesses of other men * . It is the observation of sir Thomas Browne : " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." One of the most remarkable examples of this is to be found in the pyramids of Egypt. They are generally... | |
| 1835 - 432 pages
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...gloves ; and also the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." "Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| 1835 - 642 pages
...gloves; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea.' " ' Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, ' is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.' Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
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