 | Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism, not to be resolved by man. 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 hones, and be but... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the Provincial Guardians, or Tutelary Observators. Had they made as good provision for their names as...duration. Vain ashes, which in the oblivion of names, persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 370 pages
...nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians or 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 but... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 532 pages
...nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or tutelary observators. 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. But to subsist in bones, and be... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 590 pages
...prospect. One wants to be quiet. ' To subsist in bones,' saith my old friend, Sir Thomas Browne, ' and to 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... | |
 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 pages
...nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or 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 but... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1841 - 346 pages
...nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or 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 '... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians or tutelary observators. Had they made as good provision for their names as they have done for their relics, they had not BO grossly erred in the art of perpetuation. But to subsist in bones, and be but... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...provision for their names as they have done for their relire, they had not so grossly erred in the »rt neither am I any way superstitiously deceived herein,...noise, but in the serencst sky that ever I saw, be persons, times, and sexes, have found unto themselves a fruitless continuation, and only arise unto... | |
 | Willis Gaylord Clark - American literature - 1844 - 486 pages
...prospect. One wants to be quiet. ' To subsist in bones,' saith my old friend, Sir Thomas Browne, ' and to 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... | |
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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. But to subsist in bones, . and be but pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration. 
