![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=qF7RZ0IDBAsC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 páginas
...boldest expectants have fotmd unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes,...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their , names, and... | |
![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=JrEIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...unhappy frustration; arid to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a nobl* animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave,...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature: * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and prsdicavOL.... | |
![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=zugdAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape iri oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the gravej solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the... | |
![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=5TAJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 páginas
...gloves ; also the bu. lial 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... | |
![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=VCklAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 páginas
...unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noblt animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave;...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and prsedicaVOL.... | |
![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=KxEIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | General history - 1814 - 798 páginas
...important than eloquence, in the words of an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infancy of his nature ;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words Mill more... | |
![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=WzoMXNzLzhAC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 páginas
...an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, jsplendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infancy of his nature;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words still more... | |
![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=OmgAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | 1831 - 602 páginas
...all earthly 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." Dr. Gooch. — In the autumn of 1822, Gooch made a tour through North Wales; and on his return passed... | |
![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=ezEJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 páginas
...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... | |
![](https://books.google.com.bo/books/content?id=hVIAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 páginas
...being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.' * Man/ says the same writer, ' is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of his nature.' It is indeed worthy of notice, that the Caffres are the only savages who have... | |
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