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" God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us, we are more than our present selves, and evacuate such... "
The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby]. - Page 483
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and the Garden of Cyrus

Sir Thomas Browne - Gardening - 1896 - 252 pages
...cognition of better being, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment: but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of Dread of an68 contentment, will be able at last to...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria, 1580-1880

James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 pages
...cognition of better being, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. CHAPTER V. Now since these dead bones have already out-lasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in...
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English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834

Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - English literature - 1901 - 432 pages
...cognition of better being, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment: but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. CHAPTER V. Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah and in a...
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Universal Classics Library, Volume 8

Literature - 1901 - 440 pages
...cognition of better being, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. CHAPTER V. Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah and in a...
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English Belles-lettres from A.D. 907 to 1834 ...

English literature - 1901 - 436 pages
...cognition of better being, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. CHAPTER V. Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah and in a...
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Religio Medici: And Other Essays

Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1902 - 354 pages
...necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of our selves, whereunto all present felicities afford no resting contentment,...hopes in the- fruition of their own accomplishments. CHAPTER V Now, since these dead bones have already out; lasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, cont. Hydriotaphia ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1907 - 632 pages
...hath necessitated their Contentment: But the superiour ingredient and obscured part of our selves, whereto all present felicities afford no resting contentment, will be able at last to tell us we are more then our present selves ; and evacuate such hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. CHAPTER...
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Some Literary Associations of East Anglia

William Alfred Dutt - Authors, English - 1907 - 484 pages
...cognition of better being, the wisdom of God hath necessitated their contentment : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments." Yet Browne, when so minded, could write an archaeological treatise as clearly and concisely as any...
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Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately ...

Sir Thomas Browne - Bookbindings - 1907 - 82 pages
...necessitated their contentment: but the superiour ingredient and obscured part of our selves, whereunto all present felicities afford no resting contentment,...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. *Tibullus. \Qracula Chaldaica cum scholiis Pselii et Phethonis. filr) \nrovTiov <Tu)/ia ipv^al Kadapwrarai...
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Calendar, Part 3

University of Calcutta - 1911 - 760 pages
...their constitutions, as having not the apprehension to deplore their own natures : but the superior ingredient and obscured part of ourselves, whereto...hopes in the fruition of their own accomplishments. ' ' Locate this passage, and express clearly the sense. Either 5. State concisely Browne's reasons...
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