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" 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 43
by sir Thomas Browne - 1852
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Peter Jones, an autobiography. Stage 1

Peter Jones (fict.name.) - 1848 - 228 pages
...even in Great Britain, after a lapse of three thousand years. CHAP. XI. THE HEBREW COMMONWEALTH. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may he huried in our survivors. The Egyptian mummies which Cambyses or time has spared, avarice now consumeth...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...past a moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodiex, and the mortal right-lined circle' nfined to a place ; but where tr~*es stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter,2...
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The Crayon Reading Book: Comprising Selections from the Various Writings of ...

Washington Irving - 1849 - 278 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...
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The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. With a new intr. by the author

Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 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...
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Outre-mer: a pilgrimage beyond the sea. To which are added, the latest poems ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 pages
...but a lively recollection of him will always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. PEBE LA CHAISE. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, —...
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Portraiture and Pencilings of the Late Mrs. L.A.L. Cross

Joseph Cross - 1851 - 366 pages
...a monument outlives the name it is seeking to perpetuate. ' 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.' The man who would be immortal must build his own monument, and write for himself an epitaph upon the...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 38

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 620 pages
...melancholy is all this, friend 0 , and what a lesson it teaches ! 'Our fathers fliid their graves ш our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivor».' THERE is that in the ensuing effusion which cannot foil to rouse the slumbering patriotism...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 38

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 578 pages
...Is all this, friend 0 , and what a lesson it teaches ! 'Our fathers find their graves in our abort memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.' THERE is that in the ensuing effusion which cannot fail to rouse the slumbering patriotism of every...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 2; Volume 8

1848 - 708 pages
...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 against the opium of time, which temporally coneidereth all things, Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volume 3

George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 pages
...splendid passages, which must give the reader an exalted idea of Browne's style and intellect : — " There is no antidote against the opium of time which...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, — to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets,...
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