There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Reginald Dalton - Sida 64efter John Gibson Lockhart - 1849 - 505 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 sidor
...will in turn be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. ,,0ur fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown68, ,,find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy;... | |
| 1881 - 578 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: ord to t@Z]/ may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1882 - 220 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 sidor
...duration. There is no antidote against the opinm of time, which temporally considereth all things; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.6 Generations pass while... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 258 sidor
...and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. "Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, "find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy... | |
| Washington Irving - 1882 - 1002 sidor
...will, in turn, be supplanted by hi» successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sidor
...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considercth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us now we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 sidor
...and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and, sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.'1 History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy... | |
| Sir John Russell Reynolds - 1884 - 48 sidor
...PRESIDENT, FELLOWS OF THIS COLLEGE, AND GENTLEMEN, SIR THOMAS BROWNE has said, in one of his sadder moods, " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. .... The greater part must be content to be as though they had not... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 486 sidor
...crumbling silently Into Time's gnawing river. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, Urn Burial, V., " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while... | |
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