Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. xii.

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Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,—when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.[219:1]

Dedication to Urn-Burial.

I look upon you as gem of the old rock.[219:2]

Dedication to Urn-Burial.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.

Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.

Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.

Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.