 | Medicine - 1896 - 546 pages
...says again: "In the words of one who first witnessed cremation, 'as we turned away from the retort where we had left the body of our friend it was pleasant...•enveloped by what seemed to us floods of purity.' And thus it seemed to us on the various occasions that we have been present: perfect, pure, poetic.... | |
 | 1895 - 606 pages
...utmost solemnity. In the words of one who first witnessed cremation, ' as we turned away from the retort where we had left the body of our friend, it was pleasant...enveloped by what seemed to us floods of purity.'. And thus it seemed to us on the various occasions that we have been present : perfect, pure, poetic.... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 830 pages
...be used as the repositories of the ashes. One who has witnessed this ceremony writes : "As we turned from the incinerator, where we had left the body of...light, surrounded and enveloped by what seemed to us as floods of purity. It was grateful, too, to feel that whatever might remain would be as he would... | |
 | John Storer Cobb - Cremation - 1901 - 216 pages
...accompanied the body to the Washington crematorium ; and, after describing what he there saw, he says : " As we turned away from the incinerator where we had...of him still resting in its rosy light, surrounded by what seemed to us as floods of purity. It was grateful, too, to feel that whatever might remain... | |
 | Charles Edmund Fisher - Medicine - 1905 - 412 pages
...the first time, will be found almost invariably characteristic of general experience: "As we turned from the incinerator where we had left the body of our friend, it was grateful to feel that whatever might remain after a few hours of purifying work would be as he would... | |
 | Medicine - 1908 - 978 pages
...solemnity. In the words of one who first witnessed incineration, "As we turned away from the retort where we had left the body of our friend it was pleasant...enveloped by what seemed to us floods of purity." We have a poetic fancy, and after drawing the picture of disintegration of the body in the grave, say... | |
 | Diet - 1884 - 852 pages
...causes the interior to assume beautiful vibrating and ruddy tints. One who has lately witnessed it has said : " As we turned away from the incinerator where...light, surrounded and enveloped by what seemed to us as floods of purity." "When all is over, nothing remains but a few fragments of calciued bones and... | |
 | Medicine - 1896 - 508 pages
...says again: "In the words of one who first witnessed cremation, 'as we turned away from the retort where we had left the body of our friend it was pleasant...enveloped by what seemed to us floods of purity.' And thus it seemed to us on the various occasions that we have been present: perfect, pure, poetic.... | |
 | Medicine - 1886 - 544 pages
...all others I have seen, is the most pleasing to the senses and most grateful to the memory.' And as I turned away from the incinerator, where we had left...pleasant to think of him still resting in its rosy light, enveloped by what seemed to us as floods of purity." When all was over, nothing remained but a few... | |
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In the words of one who first witnessed cremation, 'as we turned away from the retort where we had left the body of our friend it was pleasant to think of him still resting in its rosy light, surrounded and •enveloped by what seemed to us floods of... 