 Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle J must conclude and shut up all There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short...  Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin - Page 43by sir Thomas Browne - 1852Full view - About this book
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-l,ined- circle* must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote...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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...vices. * * * * 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...opium of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oufr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...on Urnbanal, affords passages of splendid eloquence that cannot easily bo equaled, ím eiample— " There is no antidote against the opium of time, which...considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our §hort memories, and sadly tell us how »e пит be buried in our survivors'. To be re»d by bare... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. " 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... | |
 | 1896 - 818 pages
...people, if we had not lost faith in the permanency of the work. But time brings involuntary wisdom. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...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 pages
...moment. " Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle, nrist conclude and shut up all. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...moment. " Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle, nnst conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considered) all things ; our fathers find their graves m our short memories, and sadly tell us how... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1823 - 380 pages
...top of it, 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."... | |
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