 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 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.... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...tomb-stones and inscriptions that I met -w\\\v \xv \Kosa 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.... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...which I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the burieJ person, but that he was born upon one day and died upon another ; two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon those registers of existence,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day, and died upon another ; two circufnstauces that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon those registers of existence; whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the departed persons,... | |
 | 1868 - 522 pages
...the Spectator, I meet with the following profoundly philosophical passage : " Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was...The whole history of his life being comprehended in these two circumstances that are common to all mankind, I could not but look upon these registers of... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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...comprehended in those two circumstances', that are common to alT mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble', as... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...record nothing else of the buried person', but that he was born on one day', and died on another'; two circumstances that are common to all mankind'. I could not but look upon those registers of existence',* whether of brass or marble', as a kind of satire upon the departed... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded ould not but look upon these registers of existence,...kind of satire upon the departed persons; who had departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them but that they were born, and that they died.... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...nothing else of the buried person, but that be was born apon one day, and died upon another; the «hole history of his life being comprehended in those two...registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as à kind of satire upon the departed persons; who had left no other memorial of them, but that they... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 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...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 Ijorn, and that they died.... | |
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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... 
