 Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal durations,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 471894Full view - About this book
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...its heart to the shrine of the dead past. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian author, philosopher But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English physician, author Life is all memory, except for the one present... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...degrading all fame into notoriety. DANIEL J. BOORSTIN (b. 191 4l, US historian. The Image, ch. 2 (1961). 3 itical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 7, 1839). 8 In matters of religion and matrimony 1 SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-82), English physician, author. Um tturial.ch. 5(1658). 6 Happy is the man... | |
 | Richard Gordon - 2002 - 448 pages
...cereclothed, that after seventyeight years was found uncorrupted. . . . But the iniquity of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? O. HENRY North Carolina doctor's son O. Henry - who was William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) - like Oscar... | |
 | Roger Lass - 1997 - 452 pages
...transmisit arnicas, Si de parte tua fidei stat fixa catena. Nunc precor, ut ualeas felix per saecula cuncta. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...Temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it; Time hath spared the Epitaph of Adrians horse, but confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...as "decent obscurity," following the parody in The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine of the time. 1 But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. THOMAS BROWNE, (1605-1682) British physician, author. Urn Burial, ch. 5 (1 658). 2 A few more days,... | |
 | Howard Williams - 2003 - 334 pages
...treatment of the dead in 'how societies remember1. INTRODUCTION "But the inquirv of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of...perpetuity. Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids?" (Browne 1658: 77). As an introduction to the volume, this chapter aims to address three areas. Firstly,... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 2002 - 334 pages
...human achievement, the physician-writer (and Osler's favorite author) Sir Thomas Browne, observed: "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. . . . Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part [of men] must be content to be as though they *Reprinted... | |
 | James W. Raab - 2014 - 216 pages
...Palatka. Miss Maggie lived to be ninety-nine years old, dying May 7, 1965. Finis The iniquity of oblivion scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit and perpetuity ... who know whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable... | |
 | Albert Borowitz - 2005 - 220 pages
...Browne argues, for "to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history." Browne reminds us that "the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity," preferring the ravager of Ephesus to the world's great builders: "Who can but pity the founder of the... | |
 | Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - 2006 - 597 pages
...that we can die but once. Religio Medici Thomas Browne; 1658 658 But the iniquity of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity... Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to... | |
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