Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk: Together with The Garden of Cyrus, Or The Quincuniall, Lozenge, Or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sundry Observations

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N. Douglas, 1927 - 202 頁

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第 78 頁 - Others, rather than be lost in the uncomfortable night of nothing, were content to recede into the common being, and make one particle of the public soul of all things, which was no more than to return into their unknown and divine original again.
第 102 頁 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
第 79 頁 - In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below the moon : men have been deceived even in their flatteries above the sun, and studied conceits to perpetuate their names in heaven.
第 67 頁 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain.
第 71 頁 - Alcmena's nights, and time hath no wings unto it. But the most tedious being is that which can unwish itself, content to be nothing, or never to have been, which was beyond the...
第 76 頁 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
第 70 頁 - If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition ; we live with death, and die not in a moment.
第 67 頁 - Adam had fallen lower, whereby by knowing no other original, and deeper ignorance of themselves, they might have enjoyed the...
第 80 頁 - ... in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.

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