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" To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto... "
The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Works of Sir Thomas Browne - Page 220
1831
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 8

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...inscriptions, (says sir Thomas Brown,) to hope for eternity by aenigmatical epithets, or initial letters, to be studied by antiquaries who we were, and have new names given us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations to the student of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages,"...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 1

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter ; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given to us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting...
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 1

1820 - 394 pages
...which it usually embalms of its followers. " To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...of our names; to be studied by antiquaries, who we Satients, or Achilles' horses in Homer, under naked nominaons, without deserts or noble acts, which...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting lang&ages. " To be content that times to come should only know there was such a man, not caring whether...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...being taken up, and oiher hoilie* laid under them 2D read by bore inscriptions, like many in GrUter ;* to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies,t are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting ftmguages. To...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter;|| to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...of our names ; to be studied by antiquaries, who we * That the world may last but six thousand years. t Hector's fame lasting above two lives of Methuselah,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 1

Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...To be read by bare inscriptions, like many iu Gruter; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epitheis, or first letters of our names; to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given to us like some of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 16

1830 - 550 pages
...survivors'. To be read by bare in4 scriptions, like many in Gruter ; to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets, or first letters of our names ; to be studied...names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolation* THE MIRROR. unió the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages. " The night...
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Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 pages
...short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survi* 0, the character of death. TOTS. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years.* Generations...studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names gi?en us, like many of the mummies, : are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by...
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The United States and Canada, in 1832, 1833, and 1834, Volume 2

Carl David Arfwedson - Canada - 1834 - 444 pages
...stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter; to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first...students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages." An affinity of thoughts and purposes brought me at length in closer contact with the elderly man. His...
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