...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...§ Generations pass while some trees stand, and old ikiii ilies last not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter,|| to hope for...

...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally coneidereth all things, Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in oar survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand,...

...celebrated Sir Thomas Brown quaintly observes : " There is no antidote against the oblivion of time * * generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. * * The greater part of men tnust be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the...

...intellect : — " There is no antidote against the opium of time which temporally considereth all things. Our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors'. To be read by bare inscriptions, like many in Gruter, — to hope for eternity by any metrical epithets,...

...buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some tr.-es stand, and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare inícriptioni like many in Grutcr,8 to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters...

...armour, which are exhibited in the hall or dining-room. For, ai old Sir Thomas Brown gays, " Grave-bnes tell truth scarce forty years ; generations pass while...trees stand ; and old families last not three oaks ! " The Jews are an exception ! Moses, the old clothesman, has an ancestry which pats the purest 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 moulders...

...shut up alL There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considercth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stoues tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families...

...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...

...a moment. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories,...survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years f generations pass while some trees stand ; and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare...