 | 1841 - 272 ページ
...yourselves are the experiment, it is as if a man should dissect his own body, and read the anatomy lecture. OUR fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. SIR THOMAS BROWN. LET us carry into the world neither curiosity nor indiscretion. Curiosity is the... | |
 | James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 ページ
...forgotten, as do the names of those, recorded upon them. — Their memorial is perished with them "•. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...survivors. — Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — To be content, that times to come should only know there was such a man, not caring whether they... | |
 | Henry Kent Staple Causton - 1842 - 346 ページ
...without any distinction to the merit of perpetuity. There is no antidote against the opium of Time ! Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in those of our survivors. Even our grave stones tell truth scarcely forty years, — generations •... | |
 | William Twopeny, John Henry Parker - 1840 - 70 ページ
...recorded upon themf.— Their memorial is perislied with them*. '• • • • e Exodus ii. 22. f "Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may he buried in our survivors.— Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. — To he content that times... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 ページ
...circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporarily considereth all things; our fathers find their graves...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... | |
 | East India college - 1845 - 620 ページ
...be peopled by strangers, and we shall be forgotten. " Oar fathers"* says a great English writer, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." And this in a rather different sense is applicable to us, — we soon forget our predecessors, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 ページ
...past a moment. " Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal rightlined circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporarily considereth all things; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 ページ
...past a moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodie*, and the mortal right-lined circle' t hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner...gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again, S OUT fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 ページ
...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 be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders... | |
 | 1848 - 738 ページ
..." Circles and right lines," says he," limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote...the opium of time, which temporally considereth all tilings. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried... | |
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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. 
