 Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly...  Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin - עמוד 46מאת sir Thomas Browne - 1852תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1826 - 548 דפים
...mourner, and an urn. * * * # While some have studied monuments, others have studiously declined them ; and some have been so vainly boisterous, that they...wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanirtious resolution rests in the christian religion, which trampleth upon pride, and sits on the... | |
 | 1826 - 548 דפים
...mourner, and an urn, # # * # While some have studied monuments, others have studiously declined them ; and some have been so vainly boisterous, that they...vainglory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But * In. vv the most magnanimous resolution rests in the christian religion, which trampleth upon pride,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 דפים
...and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in tlie infamy of his nature. . . . Pyramids, arches, obelisks were but the irregularities...magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests im the Christian reíigion, which trampleth upon pride, and sits on the m-ck of ambition, humbly pursuing... | |
 | 1831 - 370 דפים
...they die, make no commotion among the dead, and are not touched with that poetical taunt of Isaiah.* Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. t Pious spirits, who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1834 - 528 דפים
...beyond all, according to some loyal chroniclers, the possessor of that best religion ' which triumpheth upon pride, and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.' I have painted her in my thought as a tall, majestic woman, with an eye which warmed, while it awed... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 דפים
...they die, make no commotion among the dead, and are not touched with that poetical taunt of Isaiah.* Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities...diminish their diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.f Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 526 דפים
...they die, make no commotion among the dead, and are not touched with that poetical taunt of Isaiah.* Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities...others must diminish their diameters, and be poorly I seen in angles of contingency.f Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 דפים
...they die, make no commotion among the dead, and are not touched with that poetical taunt of Isaiah. Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. Angulus coritingenlid', — the least of angles. Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 דפים
...they die, make no commotion among the dead, and are not touched with that poetical taunt of Isaiah.(m) Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. (m) Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than... | |
 | 1861 - 716 דפים
...perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is s fallacy in duration. . . . Pyramids, arches, obelisks, were but the irregularities...Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride, and sits upon the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity unto which all others must diminish... | |
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