...Browne — practice the rolling Latin sentence; but upon the rhythms of our Bible they, too, fall back. 'The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designs.' 'Acquaint thyself with the Choragium of the stars.' 'There is nothing immortal but immortality.' The...

...to live fo long pace was in our mmes, as fome have done in their extant, perfons, one face ofj&xtft holds no proportion unto the other. "Tis too late to be ambitious. The greatmujEations of the world are afted, or timemayE^too (hort for our defignes, To extend our memories...

...since the sick world began to doat and talk idly: would she had but doated still! Ben Jonson, 394. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are afted, or time may be too short for our designs. Sir Thomas Browne, U, 26. IN this Age, when it is...

...increasingly more intricate and complex. In the Seventeenth Century Sir Thomas Browne wrote: "It is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted." Not long ago the New York Times made the following statement in a full-page advertisement: "When Peary...

...— practise the rolling Latin sentence; but upon the rhythms of our Bible they, too, fall back — The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designs.' 'Acquaint thyself with the Choragium of the stars.' There is nothing immortal but immortality.' The...

...and general fever may as naturally destroy it before six thousand, as me before forty. [Or again:] "Tis too late to be ambitious. The great Mutations...World are acted, or Time may be too short for our designes. [Or again:] The World it self seems in the wane, and we have no such comfortable prognosticks...

...concern oneself with such ideas as that of progress. " 'Tis too late to be ambitious," Browne said. "The great Mutations of the World are acted, or Time may be too short for our designes." The modern conception of the great, perhaps boundless, extent of time was introduced into...

...defeats us where we entertain great expectations, only to realize that time itself is far from timeless: "The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designes" (p. 309). The ultimate irony is that time becomes most meaningful when it ceases to exist,...

...landed estates, Browne's Urne-Buriall finally rejects attempts to preserve elite identities after death: We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some...ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, our time may be too short for our designes. To extend our memories by Monuments, whose death we dayly...

...presem eonsiderations seems a vanity almost out of date and superannuated pieee of folly. We eannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons; one faee ol Ianus holds no proportion umo the other.11 Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations...