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Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately ... - Page 50
by Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 54 pages
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Universal Classics Library, Volume 8

Literature - 1901 - 440 pages
...now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any...already varied the names of contrived constellations ; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osyris in the Dog-star. While we look for incorruption in the heavens,...
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Religio Medici: And Other Essays

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1902 - 354 pages
...consumeth. Mummy is become merchandize, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. £Tn vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any patent...already varied the names of contrived constellations ; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osyris in the Dog-star. While we look for incorruption in the heavens,...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 5

William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. ' In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any...already varied the names of contrived constellations; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osyris in the Dog-star. While we look for incorruption in the heavens,...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, cont. Hydriotaphia ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 632 pages
...individuals hope for immortality, or any v. Dm. patent from oblivion, in preservations below the Moon : cces' Men have been deceived even in their flatteries above...names in heaven. The various Cosmography of that part bath already varied the names of contrived constellations; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osyris in the...
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The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis ..., Volume 6

Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1902 - 476 pages
...now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any...already varied the names of contrived constellations ; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osiris in the Dog-star. While we look for incorruption in the heavens,...
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Travellers Joy

William George Waters - English literature - 1906 - 342 pages
...bodies in sweet consistencies, to attend the return of their souls. But all was vanity, feeding the 178 In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any...conceits to perpetuate their names in heaven. The various cosmogony of that part hath already varied the names of continued constellations ; Nimrod is lost in...
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AN ENGLISH PROSE MISCELLANY

JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandize, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any...already varied the names of contrived constellations ; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osiris in the Dog-star. While we look for incorruption in the heavens,...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, cont. Hydriotaphia ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 678 pages
...hope for immortality, or any v. D™. patent from oblivion, in preservations below the Moon : Eccl"fc Men have been deceived even in their flatteries above...already varied the names of contrived constellations; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osyris in the Pogge-starre. While we look for incorruption in the heavens,...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3

Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1907 - 626 pages
...hope for immortality, or any v. D™. patent from oblivion, in preservations below the Moon : cesMen have been deceived even in their flatteries above...already varied the names of contrived constellations; Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osyris in the Dogge-starre. While we look for incorruption in the heavens,...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams. In vain do individuals hope for immortality, or any...already varied the names of contrived constellations. Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osiris in the Dog-star. While we look for incorruption in the heavens,...
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