| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 376 pages
...gloves; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea.'" " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| 1835 - 432 pages
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...gloves ; and also the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." "Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, "is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 pages
...gloves; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...glory ; and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory." " But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." To this treatise on Urn-burial, the author added another upon " the Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunxial... | |
| 1836 - 640 pages
...glory ; and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory.' ' But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. • "—pp. 336, 337. ART. VIII.—Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the site of Ancient... | |
| 1836 - 694 pages
...words, that " there is nothing strictly immortal but immortality." But, mortal, be not discouraged. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of hia nature." Indeed, the last chapter of the Urn burial, (from whichlhe above extracts are... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1836 - 404 pages
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea.1' " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has... | |
| 1841 - 986 pages
...success was derided by many of the miners of the adjacent coal-field." MONUMENTS TO THE DEAD. " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."— SIR TUOMAS BROWNE. THE practice of erecting monuments to the dead is of great antiquity. It is almost... | |
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