 | Edward Bentham - Funeral orations - 1768 - 274 pages
...need of any thing their valour could do for it, and fo made it the moil glorious prefent* Beftowing thus their lives on the public, they have every one received a praife that will never decay, a fepulchre that will always be moil illuftrious — • not that in... | |
 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
...need of any thing their valour could do for it, and fo made it the moll glorious prefent. Beftowing thus their lives on the public, they have every one received a praife that will never decay, a fepukhre that will always bemoft illuftrious. — Not that in which... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...every one received a praife that will never decay, a fepu'chre that will be moil ilItiflrious. — Not that in which their bones lie mouldering, but that in which their fame is preferved, to be on every occafion, when honour is the employ of either word or aft, eternally remembered.... | |
 | 1802 - 440 pages
...public, every one of them, says he, hath received a praise that will never die— a sepulchre which will always be most illustrious ; not that in which...mouldering, but that in which their fame is preserved. The whole world is the sepulchre of illustrious citizens, and their inscription is written upon the... | |
 | William Smith - Sermons - 1803 - 492 pages
...the deceased — • " Having bestowed their lives to the public, every " one of them, says he, hath received a praise that " will never decay — a sepulchre...lie " mouldering, but that in which their fame is pre" served. This whole earth is the sepulchre of illusM trious citizens," — and their inscription... | |
 | William Smith - Sermons, American - 1803 - 528 pages
...to the deceased — *' Having bestowed their lives to the public, every " one of them, says he, hath received a praise that will never decay — a sepulchre...illustrious; — not that in which their bones lie iOuldering, but that in which their fame is pred. This whole earth is the sepulchre of illus" trious... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...one received a praise that will never decay; — a sepulchre " that will always be most magnificent: not that in which their " bones lie mouldering, but that in which their fame is pre" served, to be, on every occasion, where honour is the theme, " eternally remembered. This whole... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...stand in need of any thing their valour could do for it, and so made it the most glorious pre'i'!;i. Bestowing thus their lives on the public, they have...praise that will never decay, a sepulchre that will be most illustrious.—Not that in which their bones lie mouldering, but that in which their fame is... | |
 | Theology - 1817 - 430 pages
...grave, posterity will say, in the language of an eminent statesman and orator of antiquity, " Bestowing their lives on the public, they have every one received...their fame is preserved, to be on every occasion, when honour is the employ of either word or act, eternally remembered." No glory is comparable to that of... | |
 | Religion - 1817 - 590 pages
...gravp, posterity will say, in the language of an eminent statesman and orator of antiquity, "Bestowing their lives on the public, they have every one received...their fame is preserved, to be on every occasion, when honour is the employ of either word or act, eternally remembered." No glory is comparable to that of... | |
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Bestowing thus their lives on the public, they have every one received a praise that will never decay, a sepulchre that will always be most illustrious — not that in which their bones lie mouldering, but that in which their frame is preserved, to be... 
