...assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names hath directly promised no duration . . . But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy...

...in evolution. The people who oppose you are without honor. You should read Sir Thomas Browne: 'Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.'" Nick and I had lunch at the Hippo on Van Ness, then headed for the post office. While I was doing a...

...again Charleston. Drawing her theme from a passage in Sir Thomas Browne's Urne-Buriall (1658), "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave," Pinckney traces the fall and rise and fall again of the reputation of Augustus Grimshawe, the classic...

...itself 59] adequaey 6ll] heaven or hell 61 1 a transgresston owing to oversight by obltvton But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemn i /ing nativities and deatbs with equal lustre, nor omitting eeremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...with mortality. She drew a line from Sir Thomas Browne's Hydrotaphia; or Urne-Buriall (1658): "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." The ironic title set the tone of the book, a satire on twentieth-century Charleston society executed...

...have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence seems but a scape 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...

...have found unhappy frustration; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equall lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of bravery, in the infamy...

...remained inaccessible to the weaknesses of other men. 5 It is the observation of sir Thomas Browne: "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." One of the most remarkable examples of this is to he found in the pyramids of Egypt. They are generally...

...title: Lie Down in Darkness.) Another three-part two-parter should be more famous than it is. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Really there should be a colon after "animal," and everything after the colon is a single clause, soaring...