 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 are common...  The Sportsman - Sida 401Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
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...which, from their similarity in colour to the grass, often puzzles the crack shots. 401 GUY MAY ; OB BORN TO BAD LUCK. A SPORTING CAREER IN THE NINETEENTH...circumstances that are common to all mankind, I could not hut look upon these registers of existence, whether of brass or marble, as a kind of satire upon the... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 sidor
...tombstones and the inscriptions that he met with in those several regions of the dead, most of which recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that...the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. The "Spectator" could not but look upon these... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 sidor
...tombstones and the inscriptions that he met with in those several regions of the dead, most of which recorded nothing else of the buried person, but that...the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. The "Spectator" could not but look upon these... | |
 | Cork, Ireland. St. Fin Barre's Cathedral - 1871 - 156 sidor
...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person...the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that arc common to all mankind." " Upon my going into the Church, I entertained... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 sidor
...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person...the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 sidor
...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person...the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind. I could not but look upon these registers of... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 sidor
...myself with the tomb-stones and inscriptions 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 are common... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 364 sidor
...tomb-stone. The most numerous class of sepulchral inscriptions do indeed record nothing else but the name of the buried person ; but that he was born upon one day and died upon another. Addison in the Spectator making this observation says, ' that he cannot look upon those registers of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 366 sidor
...tomb-stone. The most numerous class of sepulchral inscriptions do indeed record nothing else but the name of the buried person; but that he was born upon one day and died upon another. Addison in the Spectator making this observation says, ' that he cannot look upon those registers of... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 sidor
...amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person but that he \vas born upon one day and died upon another ; the whole history of his life being comprehended in... | |
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