 ... that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he was born upon one day and died upon another; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that...  The British Essayists;: Spectator - Sida 117efter Alexander Chalmers - 1808Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 sidor
...Regions of the Dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried Person, but that he was born upon one Day and died upon another: The whole History...Existence, whether of Brass or Marble, as a kind of So Si Satyr upon the departed Persons; who had left no other Memorial of them, but that they were born... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 sidor
...regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born n and company left no other memorial of them, but that they were born, and that they died. They put me in mind of... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 sidor
...regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day and died upon another: the whole history...memorial of them, but that they were born and that they died. They put me in mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems, who have sounding... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 564 sidor
...could tell us ! " Most inscriptions record nothing else of the buried person, but that he was born upon one day and died upon another : the whole history...mankind. I could not but look upon these registers * A still more lamentable instance may be seen in the exquisite Lady Chapel, or Trinity Church, attached... | |
 | Andrew J. Coulson - 490 sidor
...the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person. but that he was bom upon one dav and died upon another. The whole history of his life being comprehended in these two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon those registers of... | |
 | Daniel R. Woolf - 2003 - 454 sidor
...remarked thai as 'registers of existence' they contained only dates of birth and death for a person, 'The whole history of his life, being comprehended...two circumstances that are common to all mankind'. The Spectator, 26 (30 Mar. 17nl, ed. DF Bond, 5 vols. (Oxford, 1965l, i. 109. see chests containing... | |
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