 A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with nerves and tendons for cords ; with muscles and blood for mortar ; with skin for its outward covering; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with...  Ancient and Mediaeval India - Sida 302efter Mrs. Manning (Charlotte Speir) - 1869Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Manu (Lawgiver) - 1796 - 442 sidor
...rigorous mortifi' cations, men obtain, even in this life, the ' ftate of beatitude. 76. * A manfion with bones for its rafters and ' beams ; with nerves and tendons, for cords ; ' with mufcles and blood, for mortar; with ikin, ' for its outward covering ; filled with no fweet ' perfume,... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1800 - 492 sidor
...following whimfical, but ftriking, defcription of the boufe of clay tenanted by frail mortals. *' A manfion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with nerves and tendons for cords ; with mufcles and blood for mortar; with Jkin for its outward covering ; filled with no perfume, but loaded... | |
 | Thomas Maurice - 1806 - 402 sidor
...the following whimsical, but striking, description of the house of clay tenanted by frail mortals. " A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams; with...blood for mortar ; with skin for its outward covering; filled with no perfume, but loaded with faces and u — e. " A mansion infested by age and by sorrow,... | |
 | William Jones - 1807 - 414 sidor
...rigorous mortifica•' tions, men obtain,- even in this life, the ftateof ' beatitude. , 76. * A manfion with bones for its rafters and * beams; with nerves and tendons, for cords; * with mufcles #nd blood, for mortar; with * ikm, for its outward covering ; filled with no * fweet perfume,... | |
 | Sir William Jones - 1807 - 408 sidor
...rigorous mortifiea' tions, men obtain, even in this life, the ftate of ' beatitude. 76. * A manfion with bones for its rafters and ' beams ; with nerves and tendons, for cords j * with mufeles and blood, for mortar; with ' fkitl, for its outward covering ; filled with no * fweet... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 sidor
...philosopher and legislator Menn, who thus forcibly but singularly describes the body of this great prince : " A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams; with...for mortar ; with skin for its outward -covering; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with feces and urine. A mansion infested by age and by sorrow,... | |
 | William Ward - 1815 - 588 sidor
...accident, he will still attain heaven. — Manoo says, ' A mansion with bones for its rafters and beans; with nerves and tendons for cords; with muscles and blood for mortar; with skin for its outward rovering ; filled wilh no sweet perfume, but loaded with ftces and urine; a mansion infested by age... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1816 - 458 sidor
...might be very widely extended." A mansion, with bones for its rafters and beams, with nerves for its cords, with muscles and blood for mortar, with skin for its outward covering, filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with faeces and urine : A mansion, infested with sickness... | |
 | William Ward - 1817 - 424 sidor
...absorption, Or the highest happiness ; if he die by accident, he will still attain heaven. — Miinoo says, ' A mansion with bones for its rafters and beams ; with...and tendons for cords ; with muscles and blood for nlortar ; with skin for its outward covering ; filled with no sweet perfume, but loaded with faeces... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 sidor
...nature, — a shell which the spirit was to burst before it could take wing. ' A mansion,' says Menu, ' with bones for its rafters and beams, with nerves...outward covering ; — a mansion infested by age and sorrow, the seat of malady, harassed with pains, haunted with the quality of darkness, and incapable... | |
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