| David Thomas - 1880 - 444 ページ
...popularity ! How true are the words of Sir Thomas Browne, — " There is no antidote against the opinions of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in * Seo Homilist, Vol. xzjtviii, Page 152. TOL. XLVI. NO 1. D our short memories, and sadly tell how... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 ページ
...and right linos limit and cloao (ill bodies, nnd the mortal right-lined circle (3) mu?t conclude nnd shut up all. There is no Antidote against the opium of time, which temporally cousidereth all things. Our fathers find tlu'ir%va\vs in our t-liort inemorlc-s* and sadly tell us... | |
| Washington Irving - 1881 - 970 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 bo buried in our sur. vivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded > with doubt and controversy... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 ページ
...art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones and be but pyramidally extant is a fallacy in duration. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which...our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.3 Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 ページ
...bones and be but pyramidally extant is a fallacy in duration. There is no antidote against the opinm of time, which temporally considereth all things;...our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.6 Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 1002 ページ
...will, in turn, be supplanted by hi» 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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 258 ページ
...and 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 molders... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 ページ
...all-devouring pit: •Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right- lined circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considercth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us now... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 ページ
...the mortal right-lined circle must conclude 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 niemories, and sadly tell us now we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones telI truth scarce forty... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 ページ
...all-devouring pit: 'Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opinm of time, which temporally considercth all things. Onr fathers find their graves in our short... | |
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