 | John Potter (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1818 - 618 pages
...were signified. Nor was it unusual to fix upon graves the instruments which the deceased had used. The graves of soldiers were distinguished by their weapons ; those of mariners by their oars ; and, in short, the tools of every art and profession accompanied their masters, and remained as monuments... | |
 | John Potter - Greece - 1818 - 616 pages
...were signified- Nor was it unusual to fix upon graves the instruments which the deceased had used. The graves of soldiers were distinguished by their weapons ; those of mariners by their oars ; and, in short, the tools of every art and profession accompanied their masters, and remained as monuments... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - Greece - 1831 - 280 pages
...Diogenes, the Cynic, a dog was engraven, to show his Ulogene3' own temper and that of his followers. The graves of soldiers were distinguished by their weapons; those of mariners by their oars. These, with many other ceremonies, were designed to perpetuate the memory of the deceased ; and hence... | |
 | William Burder - Religions - 1841 - 638 pages
...were signified. Nor was it unusual to fix upon graves the instruments which the deceased had used. The graves of soldiers were distinguished by their weapons ; those of mariners by their oars ; and, in short, the tools of every art and profession accompanied their masters, and remained as monuments... | |
 | Funeral rites and ceremonies - 1876 - 470 pages
...were signified. Nor was it. unusual to fix- upon graves the instruments which the deceased had used. The graves of soldiers were distinguished by their weapons ; those of mariners by their oars; and, in short, the tools of every art and profession accompanied their masters, and remained as monuments... | |
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Archimedes' with a sphere and cylinder ; whereby the charming eloquence of the former and the mathematical studies of the latter were signified. Nor was it unusual to fix upon graves the instruments which the deceased had used. The graves of soldiers... 