...There is no antidote against the opium. of time, which temporally considereth all things ; oifr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years : generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their craves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be burled in our survivors." History fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy...

...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly...security of a tomb, or the perpetuity of an embalmment ? The remains of Alexander the Great have been scattered to the wind, and his empty sarcophagus is...

...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly...security of a tomb, or the perpetuity of an embalmment ? The remains of Alexander the Great have been scattered to the wind, and his empty sarcophagus is...

...There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally consideretb all things ; our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...had not lost faith in the permanency of the work. But time brings involuntary wisdom. " Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." " While I live," promises a lover, with melancholy truthfulness, in a Roman epitaph quoted by Mr. Pater...

...against the opium of time, which temporally considered) all things ; our fathers find their graves m our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried ill our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand,...

...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. « Our fathers,» says Sir Thomas Brown, «find their graves in our short memories, and sadly...and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tableP; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand...

...and underneath these words in gilt capitals, seemingly but recently carved there : — " OUR FATHERS FIND THEIR GRAVES IN OUR SHORT MEMORIES, AND SADLY TELL US HOW WE SHALL BE BURIED IN OUR SURVIVORS. L.ET ME BE FOUND IN THE REGISTER OF GOD, NOT IN THE RECORD OF MAN."...