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" ... of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in their persons. One face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for... "
The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne - Sida 219
1831
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Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to Clarendon

Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 sidor
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 sidor
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope tenor of their way. 1 to call forth to action 2 humor by assenting Yet ev'n J anus 6 holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of...
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The Copeland Reader

Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 sidor
...considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated peece of folly. We cannot hope to show my booklearned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And t Jamis holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the...
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Style in composition

Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 244 sidor
...of our memories, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short...
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Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1927 - 212 sidor
...fome have done in their extant, per fens, one face ofjanw holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are afted, or time may be too ftiort for our defignes. To extend our memories by Monuments, whofe death...
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The Old Savage in the New Civilization

Raymond Blaine Fosdick - 1928 - 266 sidor
...machines increasingly more intricate and complex. In the Seventeenth Century Sir Thomas Browne wrote: "It is too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted." Not long ago the New York Times made the following statement in a full-page advertisement: "When Peary...
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A Treasury of English Aphorisms

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 sidor
...since the sick world began to doat and talk idly: would she had but doated still! Ben Jonson, 394. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are afted, or time may be too short for our designs. Sir Thomas Browne, U, 26. IN this Age, when it is...
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The Discovery of Time

Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 292 sidor
...general fever may as naturally destroy it before six thousand, as me before forty. [Or again:] "Tis too late to be ambitious. The great Mutations of the...World are acted, or Time may be too short for our designes. [Or again:] The World it self seems in the wane, and we have no such comfortable prognosticks...
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Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England

Marjorie Swann - 2001 - 300 sidor
...Browne's Urne-Buriall finally rejects attempts to preserve elite identities after death: We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in...face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, our time may be too short...
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Selected Writings

Sir Thomas Browne - 2003 - 180 sidor
...presem eonsiderations seems a vanity almost out of date and superannuated pieee of folly. We eannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons; one faee ol Ianus holds no proportion umo the other.11 Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations...
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