 Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...  Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin - עמוד 41מאת sir Thomas Browne - 1852תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 דפים
...and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 דפים
...and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and, sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.'1 History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy ; the inscription... | |
 | Sir John Russell Reynolds - 1884 - 48 דפים
...PRESIDENT, FELLOWS OF THIS COLLEGE, AND GENTLEMEN, SIR THOMAS BROWNE has said, in one of his sadder moods, " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. .... The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, — to be found in th e register... | |
 | Lyon Gardiner Tyler - 1921 - 338 דפים
...stone that has suffered the least * * * How melancholy is all this, and what a lesson it teaches * * * Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried by our survivors. How true it is, as Cowper says : " "We build with what we deem eternal brags —... | |
 | Basil Anderton - 1922 - 208 דפים
...passages as the two which I shall now quote, and to which I shall return later. Here is the first: . // " There is no antidote against the opium of time which...memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivers. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 174 דפים
...is no antidote against the Opium of time, which temporally considereth all things; Our Fathers finde their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell...buried in our Survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce fourty yeers: Generations passe while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oakes. To be... | |
 | 1924 - 688 דפים
...century is in continental eyes — Oscar Wilde. So runs the whirligig of fashion. Nothing endures. "There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things. . . . The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 דפים
...past a moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle3 must conclude and shut up all. There is no antidote...fathers find their graves in our short memories, and 1 That the world may last but six thousand years. 2 Hector's fame lasting above two lives of Methuselah,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 דפים
...past a moment. Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle1 e-and-ninety flew ope at our touch, should the hundredth appall ? In the least thing temporarily considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly... | |
 | Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 דפים
...of earthly things and conditions : There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporarily considereth all things ; our fathers find their graves...forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand. v and old families last not three oaks. Sir Thomas Browne is a true physician of the mind whenever... | |
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