 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...our survivors. Gravestones toll truth scare.* forty years. Generations pass whll-j some trees eland. and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare fnaeriptions like many in Grnter. (4) to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...a fallacy in duration. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things; our fathers find their graves in our short...our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.3 Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.6 Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter,1 to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, to be studied... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 538 pages
...Onr fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell ns now we may be buried in onr survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years....trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. . . . Who can but pity the founder of the Pyramids? Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana:... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill (N.Y.) - 1882 - 258 pages
...and 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 tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy ; the inscription molders... | |
 | Virginia - 1921 - 328 pages
...stone that has suffered the least * * * How melancholy is all this, and what a lesson it teaches * * * Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried by our survivors. How true it is, as Cowper says: " 'We build with what we deem eternal brass— A... | |
 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...and 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 tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...consideration of that duration, which maketh pyramids pillars of snow, and all that's past a moment. . . . Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations...some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.'21 For the sake of richness the baroque prose-writers chiefly cultivated repetition — either... | |
 | T. W. Körner - Mathematics - 1993 - 400 pages
...at time 0 at the origin (0, 0). G.3 (Why are we not all called Smith?) Sir Thomas Browne writes that 'Generations pass while some trees stand and old families last not three oaks.' What is the probability that some family name will eventually become extinct? As a simplified model,... | |
 | Thomas William Körner - Mathematics - 1996 - 548 pages
...shed some light on it, I shall concentrate on simpler but related problems. Sir Thomas Browne wrote 'Generations pass while some trees stand and old families last not three oaks'. (The quotation is taken from Kendall's fascinating papers [114] and [115].) Less concisely, Galton... | |
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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. 
