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" But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. "
The Table Talker: Or, Brief Essays on Society and Literature - Page 262
by Johnstone - 1840
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 lehte
...memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, tither of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein...frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape iri oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the gravej solemnizing nativities...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., 3. köide

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 lehte
...memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no. duration. Wherein...boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration; arid to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a nobl* animal, splendid in...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., 3. köide

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 lehte
...memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein...so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have fotmd unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a...
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The Reflector: A Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy ..., 2. köide

Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 lehte
...gloves ; also the bu. lial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in. the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 lehte
...memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection; either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein...subsistence seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noblt animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal...
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A general history and collection of voyages and travels ..., 24. number

General history - 1814 - 798 lehte
...important than eloquence, in the words of an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infancy of his nature ;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words Mill more...
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 13. köide

Robert Kerr - 1815 - 550 lehte
...an author already quoted at the commencement of this note : — " Man is a noble animal, jsplendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery, in the infancy of his nature;" — the reason for which is explained by another author, in words still more...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1831 - 602 lehte
...all earthly glory, and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous...ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature." Dr. Gooch. — In the autumn of 1822, Gooch made a tour through North Wales; and on his return passed...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts, 2. köide

Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 lehte
...gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea." " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Whoever drew up this little advertisement, certainly understood this appetite in the species, and has...
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The Quarterly review, 21. köide

1819 - 596 lehte
...being ever, and as content with six foot as the moles of Adrianus.' ' Man,' says the same writer, ' is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous...lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infancy of his nature.' It is indeed worthy of notice, that the Caffres are the only savages who have...
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