 | George Riddle - Readers - 1902 - 648 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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - English essays - 1902 - 266 pages
...but because a poem upon it had first made him a reputation in quarters where it was of use to him. I could not but be very much delighted with several...expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor to the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1902 - 410 pages
...great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor 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... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1902 - 404 pages
...bosom of the ocean. I could not be but very much delighted with several modern epitaphs, which were written with great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honor to the living as well as the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...not understood once in a twelvemonth. the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim or in the bosom of the ocean. I...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 422 pages
...Blenheim, or in the bosom of the Ocean. I could not but be very much delighted with several modern 30 Epitaphs, which are written with great elegance of...a Foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a Nation, from the turn of their publick monuments and inscriptions, they... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 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....not but be very much delighted with several modern 30 Epitaphs, which are written with great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...monuments, which had 10 been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean....with several modern epitaphs, which are written with 15 great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honour to the living as well... | |
 | English literature - 1906 - 578 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....could not but be very much delighted with several modem epitaphs, which are written with great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1907 - 142 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....expression and justness of thought, and therefore do honourto the living as well as to the dead. As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance... | |
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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. 
