| Washington Irving - 1878 - 152 Seiten
...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." 370 History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 Seiten
...conclnde and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opinm of time, which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us now we may bo buried iu our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 Seiten
...another. Shaftesbury. TIME. THERE is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. Sir Thomai Browne, H ydriotaphia. TIME. FAST as our time runs, we should be very glad in most parts... | |
| David Thomas - 1880 - 444 Seiten
...Homilist, Vol. xzjtviii, Page 152. TOL. XLVI. NO 1. D our short memories, and sadly tell how we mny be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks." "Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear, 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 Seiten
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally ccnsidereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short...memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our p survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and... | |
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 Seiten
...will in turn be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. ,,0ur fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown68, ,,find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 Seiten
...will, in turn, be 355 supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, "find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders... | |
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 444 Seiten
...be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, •' find sheir graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." HisS tory fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded wilh doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders... | |
| 1881 - 578 Seiten
...conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth lost not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 970 Seiten
...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may bo buried in our sur. vivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded > with doubt and controversy... | |
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