 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duratiov — vaiu ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persons, times,....antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle* must... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain si which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and...antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-l,ined- circle* must... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain ashes, which in the oblivioifof names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto...emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vain-glorv, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...to subsist in. bones, and be but paramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration — vain ashes. winch in the oblivion of names, persons, times,. and sexes,...antidotes against pride, vain-glory, and madding vices. * * * * Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle* must... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...of perpetuation; but to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persons,...emblems of mortal vanities; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain glories which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | 1820 - 394 pages
...of perpetuation; but to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persons,...emblems of mortal vanities; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain glories which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persons,...emblems of mortal vanities ; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought (he world might last for ever, had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persons,...emblems of mortal vanities ; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persous, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves, a fruitless...emblems of mortal vanities ; antidotes against pride, vain glory, and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...cabinet, as if to proclaim the transitory nature of mortal glory, and the vanity of human greatness. " Vain ashes! which in the oblivion of names, persons,...unto late posterity as emblems of mortal vanities'." 1 Vide Douglas' Letter in Prov. Mag., No. 1. * Horda Angel-Cynnan, vol. 1., p. 64. 3 Brown's Hydriot.... | |
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Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion... 
