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	Urn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Romans placed the urns in a niche in a collective tomb called a "columbarium" (literally, "dovecote": the interior of a dovecote is usually covered in rows of niches to house doves).
		The discovery of a Bronze Age urn burial in Norfolk prompted Sir Thomas Browne to deliver a careful description of the antiquties found, and then expand to give a survey of most of the burial and funerary customs, ancient and current, of which his era was aware, in Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial (1658).
		Urns are a common form of architectural detail and garden ornament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urn (341 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
		Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, is a work published in 1658 by Sir Thomas Browne.
		Its nominal subject was the discovery of a Bronze Age urn burial in Norfolk.
		The Urn Burial has also been admired by Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, John Cowper Powys, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said of it that it "smells in every word of the sepulchre." Which was, of course, the exact effect Browne wished.
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		Burial or a Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral
		Burial has also been admired by Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, Jorge Luis...
		Burial and The Garden of Cyrus : http://penelope.uchicago.edu/hgc.html a....
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	Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
		Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial or a Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, is a work published in 1658 by Sir Thomas Browne.
		Browne then gives a careful survey of most of the burial and funerary customs, ancient and current, of which his era was aware.
		The Urn Burial has also been admired by Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson, Jorge Luis Borges, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said of it that it "smells in every word of the sepulchre." Which was, of course, the exact effect Browne wished.
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	Stone Urns
		Funeral urns were used by many civilizations, as after their death, the bodies were cremated and their ashes were typically collected in an urn.
		In this basic urn model in probability theory, the urn contains ''x'' white and ''y'' fl balls; one ball is drawn randomly from the urn and its color observed; it is then placed back in the urn, and the selection process is repeated.
		Urn problems have been a part of the theory of probability since at least the publication of the ''Ars conjectandi'' by Jakob Bernoulli (1713).
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	brownekitz
		Indeed, if Hydriotaphia merits further consideration, it is precisely because in it Browne foregrounds questions about the production of what might be called the rhetorical artifact, and by studying the human-made object he is able to address what compels a society to fashion the world the way it does.
		At the same time though, the urns bear a resemblance to certain statements so violently torn from their original context that, while one may be able to determine what they say, one remains at a loss as to what they might mean.
		All this interest in urns as figures occurs, to be sure, with an eye on the living and their own needs, as much as on the dead and theirs.
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	Thomas Browne
		The book is scientifically significant because its arguments were some of the first to cast doubt on the widely-believed hypothesis of spontaneous generation or abiogenesis.
		In 1658 Browne published together two Discourses which are intimately related to each other, the first being Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial or a Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, occasioned by the discovery of some Bronze Age burials in earthenware vessels found in Norfolk.
		Hydriotaphia's (Urn-Burial) 'binary' companion Discourse is The Garden of Cyrus, or, The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, and Mystically Considered, whose slight subject is the quincunx, the arrangement of five units like the five-spot in dice, which Browne asserts was the way Cyrus's garden was planted.
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	Hydriotaphia (Urn-Burial).
		That carnal interment or burying was of the elder date, the old examples of Abraham and the patriarchs are sufficient to illustrate; and were without competition, if it could be made out that Adam was buried near Damascus, or Mount Calvary, according to some tradition.
		In the form of burial among the ancient Britons, the large discourses of Cæsar, Tacitus, and Strabo are silent.
		Enoch and Elias, without either tomb or burial, in an anomalous state of being, are the great examples of perpetuity, in their long and living memory, in strict account being still on this side death, and having a late part yet to act upon this stage of earth.
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	Browne, Sir Thomas - Search View - MSN Encarta
		In this work Browne speculates on the origins of human error and analyzes popular superstitions, but the book has an unscientific approach.
		Hydriotaphia: Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus appeared together in 1658.
		Urn-Burial is a treatise on death and burial customs throughout the world.
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	BrowneNQ
		5 of Browne's Hydriotaphia must be included in the analysis; the remainder of paragraphs 1-4 is printed in the Notes and Questions on Sir Thomas Browne.) Essays should be typed or wordprocessed, and use MLA format (a Works Cited page is optional).
		The Greek word hydriotaphia means "urn burial": like Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne frequently translates for readers with small (or no) Latin or Greek (as Ben Jonson somewhat severely said in one of the assigned poems, about Shakespeare).
		Hydriotaphia has five chapters; the NAEL6 selection is the whole fifth, concluding chapter, comprised of 17 paragraphs (see the note, above, about the misparagraphing of the opening paragraphs in NAEL6); the NAEL7 selection is pars.
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	A Crypt to Die for
		Even with the frills, people in the funeral industry say mausoleum burials are often a few thousand dollars cheaper than traditional burials, which require an outer burial container to enclose the casket in the ground, a headstone, gravedigging, fees for opening and closing the grave and maintenance.
		Of these, 25.6% (51,308) had urns and their contents placed in the cemetery’s columbarium ("dove cote" - a wall with niches); the rest were either buried or scattered in a designated area of the cemetery.
		When burial spaces are originally acquired, there is an expectation that a surviving spouse will be buried with the deceased spouse in an appropriate manner.
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	The Infidels - Thomas Browne
		Hydriotaphia's (Urn-Burial) 'twin' Discourse is The Garden of Cyrus, or, The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, and Mystically Considered, whose slight subject is the quincunx, the arrangement of five units like the five-spot in dice, which Browne uses to demonstrate that the Platonic forms exist throughout Nature.
		This statue occupies the centre position of the Haymarket beside St Peter Mancroft, not far from the site of his house, was erected in 1905 and moved from its original position in 1973.
		Hydriotaphia is also the title of a play written by the American author Tony Kushner in 1987.
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	Sir Thomas Browne Essay
		As an essayist, Browne's interests reflect those of the educated elite in the mid-17th century, a period when scientific curiosity and antiquarianism were both on the rise, the one not always distinguishable from the other, and both only in the process of becoming organized as distinct branches of knowledge in England at this time.
		To these many kinds of inquiry, Browne brought his enormous erudition, his fascination for paradox, his passion for mystery, and his seeming desire for endless questions.
		Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial ; or, A Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns Lately Found in Norfolk, Together with the Garden of Cyrus; or, The Quincuncial Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered, 1658; edited by W. Greenhill, 1896, John Carter, 1958, and Robin H. Robbins, with Religio Medici, 1972.
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	Alibris: Burial
		It deals with the process of dying, the conduct of funerals, the arrangement of burials, the private and public commemoration of the dead, and ideas about the afterlife.
		Occult, magic and ritual element of afterlife prominent Death across all periods from ancient to present sells Egyptian exhibitions and TV programmes consistently pull in the punters Large opportunity since no up to date book of this scope on the subject Opportunity in Egyptian history for non-pap, non-aco books How you died was more...
		Respectable Burial is a social history of death, burial, and a cherished public space in Montreal from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Burial/page/8 (885 words)

	Dreamers Rise: An Open Notebook
		So Thomas Browne, in Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, regarding the unearthing in a Norfolk field of several dozen urns containing ancient Roman burial remains.
		Browne's point, as I read him, was that the careful interment of the Romans' ashes had come to naught: their names had failed to survive them, and so their lives, their deeds, their kin, were lost to human knowledge for eternity, and no historian could ever restore their identities.
		The ashes in the urns were now mere stuff, matter without a trace of the spirit it once contained.
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	Thomas Browne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These inspired Browne to meditate upon the funerary customs of the world and the fleetingness of earthly fame and reputation.
		Hydriotaphia's (Urn-Burial) 'binary' companion Discourse is The Garden of Cyrus, or, The Quincunciall Lozenge, or Network Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, and Mystically Considered, whose slight subject is the quincunx, the arrangement of five units like the five-spot in dice, which Browne utilises to demonstrate that the Platonic forms exist throughout Nature.
		We took a chapter out of Urne Buriall and we did that into Quevedo 's Spanish and it went very well".
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	Sir Thomas Browne
		The discovery of some Roman urns at Burnham in Norfolk, led him in 1658 to write his "Hydriotaphia" (Urn-burial); he also published at the same time "The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunxcial Lozenge of the Ancients," a curious work, but far inferior to his other productions.
		Browne was buried in the church of St Peter, Mancroft, Norwich, where his wife erected to his memory a mural monument, on which was placed an English and Latin inscription, setting forth that he was the author of "Religio Medici," "Pseudodoxia
		The "Hydriotaphia," or Urn-burial, is a treatise on the funeral rites of ancient nations.
	uoregon.edu /~rbear/browne/intro.html (2014 words)

	Browne, Sir Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After circulating in manuscript, it was first published in a pirated edition (1642); an authorized edition followed (1643).
		Inspired by the discovery of funeral urns near Norwich, he wrote Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial (1658), a solemn reflection on death and immortality, in which he expressed a belief in the futility of things here on earth.
		Published with Urn Burial was the more optimistic The Garden of Cyrus, a work devoted to the mystic symbolism of the number five.
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		The dis- covery of some Roman urns at Burnham in Nor- folk, led him in 1658 to write his "Hydriotaphia" (Urn-burial); he also published at the same time "The Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunxcial Lozenge of the Ancients," a curious work, but far inferior to his other productions.
		It was caused by the discovery of some Roman urns in Norfolk.
		Some of Browne's notes to that edition have been omitted, and most of the references, as they refer to books which are not likely to be met with by the general reader.
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	Mad Hatters' Review - Issue 6 - Whatnots by ULF CRONQUIST - 'A.M./P.M.,' & 'Thus, I, When Dead, Should Wish to Go to ...
		There is "A Golden Horse Lying Dead among the Sirens" in Browne's Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial, I said.
		He led the choir: "We resent you, we resent you, we resent you!" He then added, as he spat at me, in a loud voice: "Die, die, die, like a golden horse in your own sweat, in your own bed, in your own filthy writing!"
		Then they put gasoline on Browne's Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial and burned it.
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	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 16th Century: Topic 2: Texts and Contexts
		The eight and twentieth of April, 1586, I went to see the Pyramids and Momia, being of three gentlemen of Germany entreated to accompany them.
		are thousands of embalmed bodies, which were buried thousands of years past in a sandy cave, at which there seemeth to have been some city in times past.
		We were let down by ropes, as into a well, with wax candles burning in our hands, and so walked upon the bodies of all sorts and sizes, some great and small, and some embalmed in little earthen pots, which never had form.
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	Gray Booksellers > Featured Items
		Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial: Together with The Garden of Cyrus.
		This copy has the portrait of Browne by R. White; the engraving of the urns is bound before the Hydriotaphia, and the engraving of the quinqunx is bound opposite the title for the Garden of Cyrus.
		It is bound in eighteenth century quarter calf which has been rebacked.
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	Thomas Browne Study Questions, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Browne Study Questions, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial
		What seems to be Browne's interest in exploring the burial customs of different civilizations--what is there to gain from such a study, given his Christian beliefs about the primacy of the spirit over the body?
		How might this selection be taken as suggestive regarding Browne's view not only of burial practices but of human history as a whole?
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	From Chaucer to Tennyson eBook
		He was a mystic, and a writer of a rich and peculiar imagination, whose thoughts have impressed themselves upon many kindred minds, like Coleridge, De Quincey, and Emerson.
		Two of his books belong to literature, Religio Medici, published in 1642, and Hydriotaphia; or, Urn Burial, 1658, a discourse upon rites of burial and incremation, suggested by some Roman funeral urns dug up in Norfolk.
		Browne’s style, though too highly latinized, is a good example of Commonwealth prose; that stately, cumbrous, brocaded prose which had something of the flow and measure of verse, rather than the quicker, colloquial movement of modern writing.
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	Halleck's New English Literature eBook
		Before Fuller, humor was rare in English prose writers, and it was not common until the first quarter of the next century.
		Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), an Oxford graduate and physician, is best known as the author of three prose works: Religio Medici (Religion of a Physician, 1642), Vulgar Errors (1646), and Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial (1658).
		Urn Burial, which is Browne’s masterpiece, shows his power as a prose poet of the “inevitable hour":—
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	Amazon.com: Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial) and The Garden of Cyrus: Books: Thomas Browne,Frank Livingstone Huntley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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		Edited by Frank L. Huntley, this volume pairs the complete texts of both "Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial)" and "The Garden of Cyrus" published together (as they were in the original edition in 1658).
		With modernized spelling, punctuation, and an ample glossary, this edition is also extremely well annotated and includes an introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Sir Thomas Browne, and a bibliography.
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