| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 Seiten
...expectants have fotmd unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 Seiten
...unhappy frustration; arid to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a nobl* animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave,...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature: * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 Seiten
...expectants have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape iri oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the gravej solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 Seiten
...gloves ; also the bu. lial 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... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 Seiten
...unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noblt animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave;...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist... | |
| General history - 1814 - 798 Seiten
...that there is something vastly more dignified than fashion in the funeral rites of the Otabeitans— and feel that there is something vastly more important...of bravery, in the infancy of his nature ;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words Mill more sublime and exhilarating : —... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 Seiten
...an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, jsplendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities...of bravery, in the infancy of his nature;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words still more sublime and exhilarating : —... | |
| 1831 - 602 Seiten
...earthly glory, and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." Dr. Gooch. — In the autumn of 1822, Gooch made a tour through North Wales;... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1819 - 596 Seiten
...being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.' ' Man,' says the same writer, ' is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of his nature.' It is indeed worthy of notice, that the Caffres are the only savages who have ever been found in so... | |
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