CONTENTS
Hydriotaphia
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Author: Sir Browne Thomas (1605-1682)
Year: 1658
And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly... We whose generations are ordained in this setting part of time are providentially taken off from such imaginations. And being necessitated to eye the remaining particle of futurity, are naturally constituted unto thoughts of the next world, and cannot excusably decline the consideration of that duration, which maketh the Pyramids pillars of snow, and all that's past a moment.
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