“The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.”
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
Quotes from book
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk is a work by Sir Thomas Browne, published in 1658 as the first part of a two-part work that concludes with The Garden of Cyrus.
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
“In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.”
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter I
“Time which antiquates Antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.”
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V. Cf Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: "Tiberius," Ch 70
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter IV
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter IV
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
“To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.”
Source: Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Chapter V
