 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 356 pages
...monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean....thought, and therefore do honour to the living as well as the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons, whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean....elegance of expression and justness of thought, and which, therefore, do honour to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 632 pages
...monunents, which had been erected to the memory of perons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains f Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean. I could not but be very much delighted with several lodern epitaphs, which are written with great eleance of expression and justness of thought, and lerefore... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 450 pages
...great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honour to the living as well as the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 310 pages
...monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean. I could not but be very ;>iucn delighted with several modern epitaphs, which are written with great elegance of expression,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...which are written with great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and which, therefore, da honour to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation, from the turn of theic public monuments and inscriptions, they... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...monuments',0 which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies werejb perhaps', buried in the plains of Blenheim', or in the bosom of the ocean'....elegance of expression and justness of thought', and which', therefore', do honour to the living as well as to the dead'. As a foreigner is very apt to... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean....a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the torn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they... | |
 | English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...bodies were perhaps buried IB the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean. •\ coeld not bot ité abyss. And through the palpable obscim find out...Over the vast abrupt ? 80 both ascend In the visio the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean....honour to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreijjner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn... | |
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I observed indeed that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean. 
