 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. . . . The iniquity 1 of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Robert C. Kenner - 1892 - 112 Seiten
...and sadly tell us now we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand and old families...be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, (4) to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 Seiten
...fortune to a ridiculous visibility. Grattan. To be read by bare inscriptions, like manv in Griiter, — to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, — to be studied by antiquarians who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolation... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. . . . The iniquity1 of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1896 - 252 Seiten
...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years 2 . Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter 3 , to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries,... | |
 | Lawrence Buckley Thomas - 1896 - 800 Seiten
...we may be buried in those of our survivors. Even our gravestones tell truth scarcely forty years — generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three hardy oaks." How much then does it become us to guard against this "eating tooth of time," by recording... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 Seiten
...stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter,18 to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first...have new names given us like many of the mummies, are coW_cp_n5alalions unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages. IT "The character... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks . . . The iniquity1 of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1902 - 584 Seiten
...be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets on first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries,...names given us like many of the mummies, are cold cif isolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages."' Monuments and epitaphial... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1902 - 354 Seiten
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.1 Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...oaks.) To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter,3 to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, to be studied... | |
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There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things ; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years : generations... 
