And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one... The Retrospective Review - Seite 911820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1859 - 748 Seiten
...in his ' Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial,' that ' restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memory unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly.' And he adds, a little further on, ' the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 Seiten
...Elias,2 and Charles the Fifth can never hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector.3 And, therefore, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories,...their persons. One face of Janus holds no proportion to the other.4 "Ks too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or tune may... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 Seiten
...Elias,2 and Charles the Fifth can never hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector.3 And, therefore, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories,...their persons. One face of Janus holds no proportion to the other.4 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 468 Seiten
...Charles the .birth can never expect to thousand iive within two Methuselahs of Hector.* And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'T is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 484 Seiten
...fame lasting above two lives of Methuselah, before thut famous prince, Charles, was extant. tions, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'T is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 466 Seiten
...fame lasting above two lives of Methuselah, before that famous prince, Charles, was extant. tions, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated...hope to live so long in our names as some have done o in their persons. One face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'T is too late to be ambitious.... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 Seiten
...Methuselah, before that famous prince, Charles, was extant That the world may last but six thousand tions, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in__onrjiames_as some have done in their persons. One face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other.... | |
| 1856 - 502 Seiten
...being engraven in gold. As a balm to our restless inquietude for length of memory, he assures us that " we cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons." " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Grater ; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 Seiten
...to live within two Methuselahs of Hector. (2) And therefore restless inquietnde for the dinturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems...names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janua holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 Seiten
...Elias, and Charles the Fifth can never hope to live within two Methuselahs of Hector. And, therefore, restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories...our names, as some have done in their persons. One lace of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations... | |
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