 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 sidor
...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...in the register of God, not in the record of man. * * • A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 sidor
...Methuselah's long life, had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired ; the greater part mast ke content to be as though they had not been ; to be...in the register of God,, not in the record of man. * * A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 sidor
...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...had not been ; to be found in the register of God, pot in the record of man. * * A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 sidor
...decked with unrejoicing berries !" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime : " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living... | |
 | 1820 - 394 sidor
...decked with unrejoicing berries!" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime: " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 sidor
...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...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since, contain not one living... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 sidor
...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...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since, contain not one living... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1823 - 380 sidor
...THEIR GRAVES IN OUR SHORT MEMORIES, AND SADLY TELL US HOW WE SHALL BE BURIED IN OUR SURVIVORS. L.ET ME BE FOUND IN THE REGISTER OF GOD, NOT IN THE RECORD OF MAN." " Poor Barbara," said Mrs Elizabeth, after our youth had read the words aloud; — "poor Barbara !... | |
 | 1826 - 548 sidor
...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...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twentyseven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever 'since contain not one living... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 sidor
...only chronicle. . i ,; i .. . .:, in:. ^:-„>,..:,i. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater put must be content to be as though they had not been,...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story,* and the recorded names ever since contain not one living... | |
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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. 
