...scarfs, and six pair of gloves ; two porters equipped to attend the same with band and gloves ; and also the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea."...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a ttedium vitee upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended....

...have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...attend the same with band and gloves ; also, the burial fees paid, if not exceeding one guinea.1' " Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal,...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tcedium vitce upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended....

...words, that " there is nothing strictly immortal but immortality." But, mortal, be not discouraged. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infancy...

...glory ; and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory." " But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...glory ; and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory.' ' But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy...

...strong elm coffin, covered with superfine black, and furnished with two rows, all round, close drove, best japanned nails, and adorned with ornamental drops,...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tedium vita; upon one to read it. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The...

...velvet pall, three gentlemen's cloaks, three crape hat-bands, three hoods and scarfs, and six pairs of gloves ; two porters equipped to attend the funeral,...abundant provision for it. It really almost induces a tadium vitas upon one to read jt. Methinks I could be willing to die, in death to be so attended. The...

...success was derided by many of the miners of the adjacent coal-field." MONUMENTS TO THE DEAD. " Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."— SIR TUOMAS BROWNE. THE practice of erecting monuments to the dead is of great antiquity. It is almost...

...and finery. Pride takes death, and, for its especial purpose, tricks it out in the frippery of life. "Man," says Sir Thomas Browne, " is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave; solemnising nativities and deaths with equal lustre; nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy...