 | Grenville Kleiser - Oratory - 1908 - 456 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...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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Oratory - 1908 - 452 pages
...which are written with great elegance of 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 or the politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 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....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... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Culture - 1909 - 456 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 much delighted with several modern'epitaphs, which are written with great elegance of expression and justness of thought, and therefore... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 574 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... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - English essays - 1910 - 440 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 turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they... | |
 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 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... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1910 - 492 pages
...memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of -he ocean. I could not but be very much delighted with...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... | |
 | 1910 - 1042 pages
...bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of Jie ocean. I could not but he very much delighted with several modern epitaphs,...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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 honor to 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. 
