All flesh is grass, is not onely metaphorically, but literally, true; for all those creatures we behold are but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in our selves. Illustrations of Logic - Página 68por Paul T. Lafleur - 1899 - 97 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1822 - 590 páginas
...affected writer. Again, the same author, in his Religio Medici, reasons and expresses himself thus, " That all flesh is grass, is not only metaphorically but...literally true ; for all those creatures we behold arc but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves.... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 páginas
...latter of these tracts he had said, " All flesh is grass, not only metaphorically, but literally : for " all those creatures we behold, are but the herbs of the field di" gested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves. " Nay, farther we are, what... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1835 - 456 páginas
...latter of these tracts he had said, " All flesh is grass, not only metaphorically, but literally : for " all those creatures we behold, are but the herbs of the field di' gested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves. ' Nay, farther we are, what... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 páginas
...the resurrection, it is nothing but an elemental composition, and a fabric that must fall to ashes. " All flesh is grass," is not only metaphorically but...all those creatures we behold, are but the herbs of (98) The doctrine of the pre-existence of souls is very old, and was once fashionable. Every one is... | |
| James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 páginas
...the resurrection, it is nothing but an elemental composition, and a fabric that must fall to ashes. All flesh is grass, is not only metaphorically, but...flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves I believe that the souls of men know neither contrary nor corruption; that they subsist beyond the... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1844 - 240 páginas
...the resurrection, it is nothing but an elemental composition, and a fabric that must fall to ashes. All flesh is grass, is not only metaphorically but...remotely carnified in ourselves. Nay further, we are all what we abhor, anthropophagi and cannibals, devourers not only of men, but of ourselves ; and that... | |
| 1847 - 606 páginas
...Browne, we might quote many droll passages ; one may suffice : '• That all flesh is grass," says he, " is not only metaphorically, but literally true ; for...them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves. Nay, faither, we are what we all abhor — anthropophagi and cannibals, devourers not only of men but ourselves... | |
| 1847 - 602 páginas
...Browne, we might quote many droll passages ; one may suffice : '. That all flesh is grass," says he, "is not only metaphorically, but literally true; for all those creatures we hehold are but the herbs of the field, digested into flesh in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves.... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1850 - 528 páginas
...he had said, " All flesh is grass, not "only metaphorically, but literally: for all thnso crciilnres we "behold, are but the herbs of the field digested into flesh in " them, or more remotely carnined in ourselves. Nay, farther, ' we are, what we all abhor, anthropophagi and cannibals ; de'... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 páginas
...resurrection, it is nothing but an elemental composition, and a fabrick that must4 fall to ashes. " All flesh is grass," is not only metaphorically, but...in them, or more remotely carnified in ourselves. ^ ay, further, •we are what we all abhor, anthropophagi, and cannibals, devourers not only of men,... | |
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