 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 стор.
...and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature: * * * To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and prsdicavOL. tit. I, L... ment of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 стор.
...and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature. * * * To subsist in lasting monuments; to live in their productions, to exist in their names, and praedicaVOL. III. V meiit of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part... | |
 | 1819 - 596 стор.
...grows old itself bids us hope no long duration, — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. • To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, — was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their elysiums. But all this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 стор.
...grows old itself bids us hope no long duration, — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. • To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names, — was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their elysiums. But all this... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 стор.
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. " Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 стор.
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency. " Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 стор.
...obelisks, were but the irregularities •of vain glory, and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of •contingency. Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 стор.
...obelisks, were but the irregularities of vain-glory, and wild enormities of ancient . magnanimity; but the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian...diameters, and be poorly seen in angles of contingency.^: Pious spirits, who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than the... | |
 | 1822 - 608 стор.
...handsome anticipation of heaven. The glory of the world is surely over, and the earth in ashes unto them. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their...and predicament of chimeras was large satisfaction to old expectations, and made one part of their elygium. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 стор.
...upon pride, and sits on the m-ck of ambition, humbly pursuing that infallible perpetuity, unto winch can Book Exchange Pions spirits, who passed their dnys in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world than the... | |
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Pyramids, arches, obelisks were but the irregularities of vainglory and wild enormities of ancient magnanimity. But the most magnanimous resolution rests in the Christian religion, which trampleth upon pride and sits on the neck of ambition, humbly pursuing... 
