Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk |
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... pieces of small boxes , or combs handsomely wrought , handles of small brasse instruments , brazen nippers , and in one some kind of Opale . * Near the same plot of ground , for about six yards com- passe were digged up coals and ...
... pieces of small boxes , or combs handsomely wrought , handles of small brasse instruments , brazen nippers , and in one some kind of Opale . * Near the same plot of ground , for about six yards com- passe were digged up coals and ...
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... piece of Maud the Empresse said to be found in Buckenham Castle with this in- scription , Elle n'a elle . || At Thorpe ... pieces neer || Norwich with a rude head upon the obverse , and an ill - formed horse on the reverse , with ...
... piece of Maud the Empresse said to be found in Buckenham Castle with this in- scription , Elle n'a elle . || At Thorpe ... pieces neer || Norwich with a rude head upon the obverse , and an ill - formed horse on the reverse , with ...
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... pieces and toyes included in them , and the custome of burning with many other Nations , might somewhat doubt whether all Urnes found among us were properly Romane Reliques , or some not belonging unto our Brittish , Saxon , or Danish ...
... pieces and toyes included in them , and the custome of burning with many other Nations , might somewhat doubt whether all Urnes found among us were properly Romane Reliques , or some not belonging unto our Brittish , Saxon , or Danish ...
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... pieces of Iron , Brass and Wood , and one of Norway a brass guilded Jewes harp . Cambden . Nor were they confused or careless in disposing the no- blest sort , while they placed large stones in circle about the Urnes , or bodies which ...
... pieces of Iron , Brass and Wood , and one of Norway a brass guilded Jewes harp . Cambden . Nor were they confused or careless in disposing the no- blest sort , while they placed large stones in circle about the Urnes , or bodies which ...
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... pieces , but the open magnificence of Antiquity , ran much in the Artifice of Clay . Hereof the house of Mausolus was built , thus old Jupiter stood in the Capitol , and the Statua of Her- cules made in the Reign of Tarquinius Priscus ...
... pieces , but the open magnificence of Antiquity , ran much in the Artifice of Clay . Hereof the house of Mausolus was built , thus old Jupiter stood in the Capitol , and the Statua of Her- cules made in the Reign of Tarquinius Priscus ...
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according Achilles Ægyptian affected agreeable unto ancient Antiquity authentick Boadicea bones and ashes Brancaster Brittains Brittish burial buried burnt the body Cæsar chres Christians Claudius Commodus conceived conjecture contrived corruption Countrey Coynes custome dayes dead death declined Democritus draughts due unto duration earth Epicurus Euripides expect fiery finde fire folly Fore-fathers friends Funeral pyre Gemme Ghosts grave interment ground habitations handsomely hath heaven hell Heraclitus Hercules Homer honour hope HYDRIOTAPHIA Iceni immortality inhumation King living Martyrs Mausolus memories Monuments names Nations natural noble noblest Norwich obscure Obsequies observable Ossuaries Pagan Patroclus perpetuity Persian persons pieces Plato Plin Plutarch Pompey practice of burning Pythagoras Reliques Resurrection Rites Romane Rome Saxon seems sepul sepulchral sepulture Severus sideration skulls solemn soul spirits stones subsist Sylla Tacitus things thought tions Tomb unto old unto this practice urnal interment URNE-BURIALL Urnes valediction Vespasian wayes whereby wherein whereof wood
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Page 48 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon.
Page 46 - What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or tutelary observators.
Page 50 - In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below the moon; men have been deceived even in their flatteries above the sun, and studied conceits to perpetuate their names in heaven. The various cosmography of that part hath already varied the names of contrived constellations; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osyris in the Dog-star.
Page 51 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after, death makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration; wherein there is so much of chance that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration, and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion.
Page 52 - If in the decretory term of the world we shall not all die but be changed, according to received translation, the last day will make but few graves; at least quick resurrections will anticipate lasting sepultures. Some graves will be opened before they be quite closed, and Lazarus be no wonder. When many that feared to die, shall groan that they can die but once...
Page 50 - A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls: a good way to continue their memories, while, having the advantage of plural successions, they could not but act something remarkable in such variety of beings and enjoying the fame of their past selves, make accumulation of glory unto their last durations.
Page 49 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves. To weep into stones are fables. Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity.
Page 44 - Now, since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and, in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests ; what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relics, or might not gladly say, " Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim.
Page 51 - Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapalus, but the wisdom of funeral laws...
Page 53 - To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief.