| 1848 - 574 páginas
...last, and Methusela'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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...and Methuselah's lang life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greatest . [Hallo my Fancy.'] [Anonymous.] In melancholic fancy, before the flood ; and the recorded names ever «¡все contain not one living century. The number... | |
| 1889 - 670 páginas
...notorious is a healthy sign. We do not think that it is so in many cases. As Sir Thomas Browne has said, " The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of Qod, not in the record of man"; and there seems no adequate reason why, because a man has benefitted... | |
| William Quereau Force - 1850 - 292 páginas
...Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families lut not three oaks. Oblivion is not to he hired. The greater part must be content to be as though...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-ieven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
| 1889 - 562 páginas
...notorious is a healthy sign. We do not think that it is so in many cases. As Sir Thomas-Browne has said, " The greater part must be content to be as though they...in the register of God, not in the record of man"; and there seems no adequate reason why, because a man has benefitted bis country by a life of thought... | |
| 1851 - 608 páginas
...holocaust, a man may carry his own pyre." The Hydriotnphia contains many passages of a higher tone : — " 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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 308 páginas
...fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. SIB THOMAS BBOWNE'S Urn Burial. THE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris. Both... | |
| Sir Daniel Wilson - 1851 - 776 páginas
...contributions of new truths, its most accredited data being at best only approximations to the desired end. "Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...been : to be found in the register of God, not in the records of men. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the Flood, and the recorded names... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 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... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 574 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... | |
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