| Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1808 - Страниц: 600
...or other suitable moral sen-, tences, refraining at the same time from tears and lamentation. 1. " FOOLISH is he who seeks permanence in the "' human...plantain " tree, transient like the foam of the sea." '2. " WHEN a body, formed of five elements to re"ceive the reward of deeds done in its own former "... | |
| Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - Страниц: 428
...refraining from tears alleviate their sorrows by the recital of such sentences as the following. " Foolish is he, who seeks permanence in the human state,...plantain tree, transient like the foam of the sea." " When a body formed of five elements, to receive the reward of deeds done in its own proper person,... | |
| Lady Maria Callcott - 1814 - Страниц: 428
...refraining from tears alleviate their sorrows by the recital of such sentences as the following. " Foolish is he, who seeks permanence in the human state,...plantain tree, transient like the foam of the sea." " When a body formed of five elements, to receive the reward of deeds done in its own proper person,... | |
| 1832 - Страниц: 652
...deceased then change their clothes, and, sitting down, utter the following or other moral sentences. ' " Foolish is he who seeks permanence in the human state...in dissolution ; and life is concluded with death." ' —pp. 151—154. To these rites we shall add the author's account of the ceremonies which are practised... | |
| Alexander Hamilton (novelist.) - 1834 - Страниц: 430
...perishable — the ocean — and all that they contain ; — and how skall mortal man not pass away ? All that is low must finally perish — all that is elevated must ultimately fall — all that breathes must end in dissolution — and life must end in death." A. cold,... | |
| Hindus - 1835 - Страниц: 434
...deceased are finished, the recital of the following sentences is directed by an ancient legislator : — " Foolish is he who seeks permanence in the human state,...plantain tree, transient like the foam of the sea. When a body, formed of five elements to receive the reward of deeds done in its own former person,... | |
| 1835 - Страниц: 430
...deceased are finished, the recital of the following sentences is directed by an ancient legislator : — " Foolish is he who seeks permanence in the human state,...plantain tree, transient like the foam of the sea. When a body, formed of five elements to receive the reward of deeds done in its own former person,... | |
| Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1837 - Страниц: 468
...following or other suitable moral sentences, refraining at the same time from tears and lamentation. 1. ' Foolish is he who seeks permanence in the human state,...plantain tree, transient " like the foam of the sea." 2. " When a body, formed of five elements to receive the " reward of deeds done in its own former person,... | |
| Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1837 - Страниц: 472
...meet destruction?" 4. " All that is low must finally perish ; all that is ele" vated must ultimately fall ; all compound bodies must " end in dissolution, and life is concluded with death." 5. " Unwillingly do the manes of the deceased taste the " tears and rheum shed by their kinsmen ; then... | |
| Henry Thomas Colebrooke - 1837 - Страниц: 460
...the Gods them" selves pass away: how should not that bubble, mortal " man, meet destruction?" 4. " All that is low must finally perish ; all that is elevated must ultimately fall; all compound bodies must end in dissolution, and life is concluded with death." 5.... | |
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