 | George Collison (solicitor.) - 1840 - 462 páginas
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must...Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 páginas
...immortalizes transitoriness, and makes obicii sublime: Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must ic content to be as though they had not been, to be found...Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one iving century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 páginas
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must...Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 páginas
...last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greatest part must be content to be as though they had not...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood ; and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of... | |
 | William Leete Stone - 1842 - 226 páginas
...that individuals hope for immortality, or any patent from oblivion, in preservations below the moon. The greater part must be content to be as though they...the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the story of the world before the flood, and the recorded names eve since contain not one living century."... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 páginas
...should speak of them — the less said is best said. ' The greater part of mankind must be content, as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.' Mr. Chad wick deserves the thanks of the community for having stepped a little out of his way to notice... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 páginas
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must...not been, to be found in the register of God, not in tne record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 páginas
...part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in tne record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 páginas
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...Oblivion is not to be hired : the greatest part must be content to bo as though they had not been ; tu be found in the register of God, not in the record...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood ; and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number <_>f... | |
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Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. 
