The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.
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All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
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From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,...
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Yes, lad, I lie easy, I lie as lads would choose; I cheer a dead man's sweetheart, Never ask me whose.
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Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?
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So up and down I sow them For lads like me to find, When I shall lie below them, A dead man out of mind.
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Another hand thy sword shall wield, Another hand the standard wave,...
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In this dispensation, God has clearly included the burial and resurrection of Christ along with His death as a part of 'the gospel' (1 Cor. 151-4)...It is God who has set these terms as the content of our faith in order to be saved. This is the METHOD of salvation in this day of grace.
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Confidence in the principles of an enemy must remain even during war, otherwise a peace could never be concluded; and hostilities would degenerate into a war of extermination since war in fact is but the sad resource employed in a state of nature in defence of rights; force standing there in lieu of juridical tribunals. Neither of the two parties can be accused of injustice, since for that purpose a juridical decision would be necessary. But here the event of a battle (as formerly the judgments of God) determines the justice of either party; since between states there cannot be a war of punishment no subordination existing between them. A war, therefore, which might cause the destruction of both parties at once, together with the annihilation of every right, would permit the conclusion of a perpetual peace only upon the vast burial-ground of the human species.
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Look, Tiger, if I was to be buried in potter's field, it'd just about kill me!
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All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
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It must be terrible to bury someone you love in early May, when the ground is beginning to thaw and stretch and turn bright green and the smel...
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Further, we can now explain the widespread custom of covering up mirrors or turning them to the wall after a death has taken place in the house. It is feared that the soul, projected out of the person in the shape of his reflection in the mirror, may be carried off by the ghost of the departed, which is commonly supposed to linger about the house till the burial. The custom is thus exactly parallel to the Aru custom of not sleeping in a house after a death for fear that the soul, projected out of the body in a dream, may meet the ghost and be carried off by it. The reason why sick people should not see themselves in a mirror, and why the mirror in a sick-room is therefore covered up, is also plain; in time of sickness, when the soul might take flight so easily, it is particularly dangerous to project it out of the body by means of the reflection in a mirror. The rule is therefore precisely parallel to the rule observed by some peoples of not allowing sick people to sleep; for in sleep the soul is projected out of the body, and there is always a risk that it may not return.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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We talked between the Rooms— Until the Moss had reached our lips— And covered up—our names—
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It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.
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Realizing that his time was nearly spent, he gave full oral instructions about his burial and the manner in which he wished to be remembered.....
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Rosencrantz. What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? Hamlet. Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial places!
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We should be careful never to imagine, that the wedding-day is the burial of love, but that in reality love then begins its best life; and if ...
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Cry havoc! and let loose the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial.
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It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial charges and blamed it on the cost of living.
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Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
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Burial company slogan: 'We're the last people to put you down.'
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Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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Lay her i'th'earth, And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring.
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