...be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Browne, •' find sheir graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." HisS tory fades into fable ; fact becomes clouded wilh doubt and controversy ; the inscription moulders...

...shut up all. There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: ord to t@Z]/ lost not three oaks. To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical...

...will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of to-morrow. " Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, " find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may bo buried in our sur. vivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded > with doubt and controversy...

...our survivors. Gravestones toll truth scare.* forty years. Generations pass whll-j some trees eland. and old families last not three oaks. To be read by bare fnaeriptions like many in Grnter. (4) to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters...

...stone that has suffered the least * * * How melancholy is all this, and what a lesson it teaches * * * Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried by our survivors. How true it is, as Cowper says: " 'We build with what we deem eternal brass— A...

...and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. "Our fathers," says Sir Thomas Brown, "find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors." History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders...

...consideration of that duration, which maketh pyramids pillars of snow, and all that's past a moment. . . . Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations...some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.'21 For the sake of richness the baroque prose-writers chiefly cultivated repetition — either...

...at time 0 at the origin (0, 0). G.3 (Why are we not all called Smith?) Sir Thomas Browne writes that 'Generations pass while some trees stand and old families last not three oaks.' What is the probability that some family name will eventually become extinct? As a simplified model,...

...shed some light on it, I shall concentrate on simpler but related problems. Sir Thomas Browne wrote 'Generations pass while some trees stand and old families last not three oaks'. (The quotation is taken from Kendall's fascinating papers [114] and [115].) Less concisely, Galton...

...160.5 Hydriotaphia The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying, 1606 Hydrlotaphia Generatlons harri " 1607 Hydriotaphia Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. 1608 Religlo...