We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled history with their deeds, and the earth with their renown. And yet it almost provokes a smile at the vanity of human ambition to see how they are crowded together and jostled in the dust; what parsimony is observed in doling out a scanty nook, a gloomy corner, a little portion of earth, to those whom, when alive, kingdoms could not satisfy, and how many shapes and forms and artifices are devised to catch the casual notice of the passenger, and save from forgetfulness for a few short years a name which once aspired to occupy ages of the world's thought and admiration.


"Westminster Abbey". - The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

Washington Irving Quotes

We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled history with their deeds, and the earth with...

We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled history with their deeds, and the earth with...

We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled history with their deeds, and the earth with...

We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times, who have filled history with their deeds, and the earth with...