 | 1894 - 1020 sidor
...count of time ? "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." By some alchemic process of the mind brooding upon this ancient theme, the above-quoted paragraphs... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 sidor
...only chronicle. 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...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 Demaus - 1860 - 580 sidor
...only chronicle. 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...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 - 1861 - 608 sidor
...our survivors. 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. — SIR THOMAS BROWN'S Urn Burial. THE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 466 sidor
...only chronicle. 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...names make up the first story, and the recorded names Before the . . ... flood. ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 476 sidor
...in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names Before the ever since contain not one living century. The number...dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - 1862 - 574 sidor
...ADDRESSRETURN. " THE greater part," says good Sir Thomas Browne, " 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 ; " and among the many so destined to pass away into the Silent Land, few have been humbler and less... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 468 sidor
...up the first story, and the recorded names Before the - ,. - , , ever since contain not one Jiving century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day ; and who knows when was the equinox? Every hour adds unto that current... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 sidor
...Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names Before the • . ,. . ™ flood ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead Jong exceedeth all that shall live. The nignt_of time far surpasseth the day ; and who knows when was... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 sidor
...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...dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? Every hour adds unto that current... | |
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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. 
