| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 sidor
...and Thersites is like to live .as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who • knows whether the best of men be known, or...that stand remembered in the known account of time? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 sidor
...be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? 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 be content to be as though they had... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 sidor
...and Thersites is like to live as long*as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable p«irsons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 sidor
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there b£not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time... | |
| 1831 - 602 sidor
...divide the course of пив, and oblivion shares with memory * Pcat part етеп of our living beings. Who knows whether the best of men be known : or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? — The sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either... | |
| 1828 - 964 sidor
...our good names, since bad have equal durations ; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselali's long life had been his only chronicle." 1 Thebes has been more fortunate than either... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 sidor
...into the night of forgotten things, — a half-lifting of the veil of oblivion, — does he ask, " who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time? Having, with farther richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy, shewn the uncertainty of all... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 sidor
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the -everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time? the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 sidor
...Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known 1 or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot,...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Ike first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 sidor
...remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? the first man bad 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 be content to be as though they had... | |
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