 | Robert Blatchford - 1901 - 266 σελίδες
...tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be put pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes which in the oblivion of names, persons,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1902 - 354 σελίδες
...observators. Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vainglory and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 438 σελίδες
...for their names, as they have done for their reliques, they had not so grossly erred in the art or perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but...and madding vices. Pagan vain-glories, which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement for ambition, and finding no Atropos unto the immortality... | |
 | 1903 - 1254 σελίδες
...tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....continuation, and only arise unto late posterity as emblems of mor. til vanities, antidotes against pride, vainglory, and madding vices. How charmingly he clothes... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 244 σελίδες
...their relics, there had not been such gross error in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes ! which, in the...emblems of mortal vanities, antidotes against pride, vainglory, and madding vices. Pagan vainglories, which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1927 - 212 σελίδες
...have done for their Reliques, they had not fo grofly erred in the art of perpetuation. Buttofubfiftin bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain afhes, which in the oblivion of names, perfons, times, and fexes, have found unto themfelves, afruitleile... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 σελίδες
...deliberately chosen and arranged for a beautiful rhythmic effect. Here is a scrap taken at random: "But to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration." One cannot fail to realize the lovely rhythm, so different from that of poetry. This again from the... | |
 | Madras (India : State) - 1917 - 560 σελίδες
...Thomas Browne : " Had they made as good provjsion for their names as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration." Eral, "the rising ground" (population 4,920): is the name given to a locality now forming a union and... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 σελίδες
...well-known passage beginning "What Song the Syrens sang, . . ." which includes the remarkable sentence: "But to subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration." The Garden of Cyrus, in its riot of speculation concerning the quincunx pattern in heaven and earth,... | |
 | Alfred J. Mac Adam - 1987 - 226 σελίδες
...ancient urns: Had they made as good provision for their names, as they have done for their relicks, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation....bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.17 "Tlon" is Borges's urn: It contains his personality, especially the idealist philosopher... | |
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... to subsist in bones, and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. Vain ashes, which, in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto late posterity as emblems... 
