 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?  Hydriotaphia - Page 45by Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 146 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of " Adrian,s horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our...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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our...equal durations ; and Thersites is like to live as long*as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...temple of Diana ; he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our...our good names, since bad have equal durations ; and Thersitcs is like to live as long as Agamemnon, •without the favour of the everlasting register.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...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... | |
 | 1828 - 964 pages
...temple of Diana — he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our...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... | |
 | 1831 - 602 pages
...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 there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? — The... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...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 there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? Having,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...the temple of Diana, be is almost lost that built it; time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...temple of Diana, be is almost lost that built it ; time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our...felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad hare equal durations: and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...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 persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? the first... | |
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