They may have foreseen how apt the sweet people are to confer immortality upon those whose death becomes them better than their life, and therefore wisely forebore to disturb those blissful with murderers and felons which seem to bind the Satellites of the Sun and the denizens of the Tombs together.

Under her roof the scholar completed his education; the historian sought and found the materials for his history; the minstrel chanted lays of mingled piety and love for his loaf and raiment; the sculptor carved in wood, or cast in silver, some popular saint; and the painter gave the immortality of his colours to some new legend or miracle.

But we who have met heroes know that they are very seldom of the type which achieves the immortality of the picture post-card.

It is with mocking irony that Dante places Epicurus in the furnace-tombs of his Inferno amid those heresiarchs who denied the immortality of the soul.

But whether you die or conquer, do your duty this day, and you will secure a glorious immortality."

Horace was the first to gain immortality in this department.

At those times do such poor snakes as myself enjoy an immortality.

This is but the foreshadowing of the general judgment of the people of the whole United States, and of the world, not only upon Lee, but upon all of his associates who fought, bled, and died in that glorious cause in which he won his immortality.

' "Nay, those that have really attained their literary immortality have gained it under very hard conditions.

No one mistakes the doctrines of Paul for those of Mohammed, because both taught the immortality of the soul.

I tell you that a great many worthy gentlemen and ladies have been shouldered out of the Pantheon who deserved at least a corner, and who would not while living have given sixpence to insure immortality, so certain were they of monuments harder than brass.

The comparative silence of the Old Testament concerning immortality is one of its most impressive mysteries.

I long for peace and rest, and I must start And find it, leave these luring bright abodes, I seek the immortality of gods.

" The angels were glad to hear that it has pleased the Lord to reveal such things, that men may no longer be in doubt through ignorance respecting their immortality.

He united the statesman, the scholar and the soldier; and as by the one, he purchased fame and honour in his life, so by the other, he has acquired immortality after death.

Do you think that he would have been willing to deserve even immortality, at the price of being feared in consequence of his licentious use of arms?

They lose immensely in translation, and even in reading with the eye instead of hearing, for they were never meant to find immortality in the written words, but in the speech of men.

, he now makes sensation a universal and essential property of matter (la pierre sent), declares the talk about the simplicity of the soul metaphysico-theological nonsense, calls the brain a self-playing instrument, ridicules self-esteem, shame, and repentance as the absurd folly of a being that imputes to itself merit or demerit for necessary actions, and recognizes no other immortality than that of posthumous fame.

ENSLAVING MEN IS REDUCING THEM TO ARTICLES OF PROPERTYmaking free agents, chattelsconverting persons into thingssinking immortality into merchandize.

By this I don't mean immortality, or the death of the body.

There are many imperfections in "Tristram Shandy," both from the standpoint of art and taste; yet withal it remains one of the great classics in English literature, its many passages of genuine humour and wit ensuring an immortality for the wayward genius of Laurence Sterne. (Sterne, biography: See Vol. XIX.)

It might even be more true to say that Johnson owes his immortality to Boswell.

We, during our abode in the world, from the inductions of reason, believed the immortality of the souls of men; and we also assigned regions for the blessed, which we call the elysian fields; and we believed that the soul was a human image or appearance, but of a fine and delicate nature, because spiritual."

Take ye care that he, whom you without intending it sent to his death, shall from you receive immortality.

Others grant the immortality thereof, but they make many fabulous fictions in the meantime of it, after the departure from the body: like Plato's Elysian fields, and that Turkey paradise.