 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions which I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was...whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them but that they were born and that they died.... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1899 - 216 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he was...day and died upon another, — the whole history of Ms life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - English essays - 1902 - 266 pages
...Essays." Note the different lines of thought. those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was...whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born and that they died.... | |
 | George Riddle - Readers - 1902 - 648 pages
...tomb-stones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was...whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born, and that they died.... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1902 - 404 pages
...(several regions of the ^dead.) Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but he was bom upon one day, and died upon another, the whole history...are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon \hese registers of existence, jwhether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon tKe departed persons... | |
 | 1902 - 762 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he was...and died upon another; the whole history of his life being1 comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but look... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - English essays - 1903 - 384 pages
...Tomb-stones and Inscriptions that I met with in those several Regions of the Dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried Person, but that he was...Registers of Existence, whether of Brass or Marble, as a 1 With equal foot, rich friend, impartial fate Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate; Life's span... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...Tombstones and Inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was...existence, whether of Brass or Marble, as a kind of Satyr upon the departed persons ; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they were born and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...Tombstones and Inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most 10 ' of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was...upon these Registers of existence, whether of Brass 15 or Marble, as a kind of Satyr upon the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he was born upon one day and died upon another—the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common... | |
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... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that... 
