| Sir Thomas Browne - Burial - 1878 - 598 pages
...unto that current • • !• • rr.1 flood And since death must be the Lucina of life, and oven Pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets at right declensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down O in darkness,... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life ; and even pagans could doubt whether thus...long before we lie down in darkness, and have our ligjit in ashes ; since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementos, and tnne, that grows... | |
| English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must bo the Lucina nse, and their natures of those faculties that should...inform them. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, descenBions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness,... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina1' of life and even pagans could doubt whether thus to...haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration; — diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation. There... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1882 - 220 pages
...arithmetick, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans6 could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ; since...since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration ; — diuturnity is a dream... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lueinai0 of life and even pagans could doubt whether thus to...live were to die; since our longest sun sets at right desceusions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness,... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1883 - 492 pages
...unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina10 of life and even pagans could doubt whether thus to...and have our light in ashes; since the brother of death11 daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time, that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1884 - 486 pages
...which scarce stands one mom1'nt. And since death must be the Lucina10 of life and even pagans coultl doubt whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets «t right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down... | |
| 1884 - 562 pages
...once his style, imagination, learning, wit, eloquence, and pedantry. "Since death must be " the Lucina of life, and even Pagans " could doubt, whether thus to live were ' to'die; since our longest sunsets at right ' declension, and makes but winter ' arches, and therefore... | |
| John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina 3 of life ; and even pagans could doubt whether thus...sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches,4 and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes... | |
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