 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 ページ
...There is no antidote against the opium. of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oifr fathers find their graves in our short memories, 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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 ページ
...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. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families... | |
 | 1821 - 438 ページ
...supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their craves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be burled in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 438 ページ
...yesterday out of our recollection ; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their...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 - 1822 - 424 ページ
...yesterday out of our recollection ; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their...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... | |
 | 1896 - 818 ページ
...had not lost faith in the permanency of the work. But time brings involuntary wisdom. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." " While I live," promises a lover, with melancholy truthfulness, in a Roman epitaph quoted by Mr. Pater... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 ページ
...There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally consideretb all things ; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 ページ
...against the opium of time, which temporally considered) all things ; our fathers find their graves m our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried ill our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1823 - 380 ページ
...and underneath these words in gilt capitals, seemingly but recently carved there : — " OUR FATHERS FIND THEIR GRAVES IN OUR SHORT MEMORIES, AND SADLY TELL US HOW WE SHALL BE BURIED IN OUR SURVIVORS. L.ET ME BE FOUND IN THE REGISTER OF GOD, NOT IN THE RECORD OF MAN."... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 ページ
...yesterday out of our recollection ; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. « Our fathers,» says Sir Thomas Brown, « find their...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... | |
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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. 
