 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1866 - 388 pagina’s
...religious philosopher * of Norwich declared, "it is the heaviest stone that melan* Sir T. Browne. choly can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature 5? ; and therefore, in the grim Tuscan's Hell, the souls of those who denied their immortality when... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 382 pagina’s
...as the same religious philosopher* of Norwich declared, ' it is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; ' and, therefore, in the grim Tuscan's Hell, the souls of those who denied their immortality when... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 384 pagina’s
...as the same religious philosopher* of Norwich declared, ' it is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; ' and, therefore, in the grim Tuscan's Hell, the souls of those who denied their immortality when... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pagina’s
...confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt. It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of...this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain. Without this accomplishment, the natural expectation and desire of such a state, were hut a fallacy... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pagina’s
...us was one of great sadness. " It is," says Sir Thomas Brown, " the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of his nature." And whatever leaves this great matter in doubt must necessarily darken our present life by clouding... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1876 - 616 pagina’s
...Hytlriotaphia, vol. 3, p. 4S7, etl, WiVtins. [Better Prospects] " IT is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man to tell him he is at the end of...state to come unto which this seems progressional, and oiherwise made in vain ; without this accomplishment the natural expectation and desire of such a state... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1877 - 688 pagina’s
...Hargrave Jennings. MAN'S YEARNING FOR IMMORTALITY. 37 melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him that he is at the end of his nature, or that there is no future state to come, unto which this seems progressive, and otherwise made in vain." Let any religion... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pagina’s
...audacities that durst be nothing and return into their chaos again. It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of...this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain. To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and pred1cament... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1882 - 220 pagina’s
...confirming his wavering hand unto the animosity of that attempt. It ia the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there ia no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain. Without... | |
 | Emma Marshall - 1885 - 334 pagina’s
...immortality he rests, who, in his own forcible style, said: "It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of...seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain."— From Hydriotaphia. WOODSIDE, LEIGH WOODS, CLIFTON. All Sainty Day, 1884. PART I. 1665. May we not again... | |
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It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain. 
