 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...the 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known Î ha Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greatest part... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...and Thcrsites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour ol the everlasting register. а• I have not faleely sworn. FROM 1649 FÏ05E WEITERS. ABRAHAM COWLET. Of Obscurity. i Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1847 - 388 pages
...so many renowned men that their tombs need to be hidden. "Who knows, "says a celebrated writer,1'' "whether the best of men be known, or whether there...that stand remembered in the known account of time ?" What grand visions spring out of this hope to be realized in a future state of existence ? What... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favor of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there be not more remarkable men forgot than any that stand remembered in the account of time ? Without the favor of the everlasting... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. ted of his seizure many days, Giv'n thee of grace, wherein thou may'st repent, And one bad Methuselah's lang life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greatest part... | |
 | 1851 - 486 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there be cot more remarkable- persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of Time ?... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...the 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 574 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...the 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 572 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlastingregister, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had... | |
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Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time... 
