You do not use to be so kind to everybody, let me tell you; for as they seek to eternize their names, it would be much better for them to be thus changed into hard stones than to return to earth and putrefaction. ❋ Unknown (2002)
As it is by his virtues that man may best hope to live in the memory of man, is there not something unnatural, something monstrous, in seeking to eternize here below, that of which the proper doom is obscurity and oblivion? ❋ Various (N/A)
The only artist I ever heard of who was disappointed and unrewarded for his labour in attempting to eternize the memory of Napoleon Bonaparte, was a German of the name of Schumacher. ❋ Various (N/A)
Many of our leading statesmen are engaged in devising and furthering plans for the extension of its territorial area, thereby hoping to perpetuate and eternize its bloody existence, while the majority of our most distinguished divines find employment in constructing discourses, founded upon perverse expositions of sacred writ, calculated to establish and fix in the minds of the people the impression that slavery is a divine institution. ❋ Various (N/A)
Then there may be titles, and pensions, and marble monuments to eternize the men who have thus become great; -- but what becomes of you, and your country, and your children? ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)
Country, preferred from Earl to Duke of _New-Castle_; was a Person equally addicted both to Arms and Arts, which will eternize his Name to all Posterity, so long as Learning, Loyalty, and Valour shall be in ❋ William Winstanley (N/A)
We suppose he wants to eternize his Memory by eating a Breakfast. ❋ Maximillian E. [Commentator] Novak (N/A)
Many there were who sought to eternize their own Names by honouring his; some by Elegies, and other Devices, amongst the rest one made this ❋ William Winstanley (N/A)
Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted ... offered ... especially for the stirring up of heroick spirits, to benefit their country and eternize their names by like bold attempts. ❋ Clarence Henry Haring (1922)
There are events, the monuments of which, surviving every other memorial of human existence, eternize the nation to whose history they belong, after all other vestiges of its glory have disappeared from the globe. ❋ Archer Butler Hulbert (1903)
The title-page of _The World Encompassed_ reads almost like an old ballad -- "_for the stirring up of heroick spirits to benefit their countries, and eternize their names by like {168} attempts_." ❋ Unknown (1903)
Hence it happens that the desire to eternize a given social order is thwarted and defeated by the pressure of this population which in our epoch assumes the characteristic form of the _proletariat_, -- and the social evolution continues its inexorable and inevitable forward march. ❋ Enrico Ferri (1894)
Drake's heir and nephew, and was published in London in 1628 "both for the honor of the actor, but especially for the starting up of heroic spirits to benefit their country and eternize their own names by like noble attempts." ❋ Various (1885)
And, notwithstanding he perished by a misfortune which, as it involved at the same time a most beautiful country in ruins, and destroyed so many populous cities, seems to promise him an everlasting remembrance; notwithstanding he has himself composed many and lasting works; yet I am persuaded the mention of him in your immortal works will greatly contribute to eternize his name. ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
Holding, then, in eternal contempt, my Lord, those short-lived bubbles, eternize your virtue and judgment with the Grecian monarch; esteeming, not as the least of your new-year's presents, ❋ Unknown (1857)
And how much better would such stirring monuments be; full of life and commotion; than hermit obelisks of Luxor, and idle towers of stone; which, useless to the world in themselves, vainly hope to eternize a name, by having it carved, solitary and alone, in their granite. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)
These crimes against the peace of the country and the life of the nation are all, all to eternize the hateful dominion of man over the souls and bodies of his fellow-men -- to make slavery perpetual and its power forever dominant in Christian and Republican America. ❋ Unknown (1852)
I know how delicious is this cup of love, -- I existing for you, you existing for me; but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt to eternize the fireside and nuptial chamber; to keep the picture-alphabet through which our first lessons are prettily conveyed. ❋ Unknown (1850)