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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. "
The Miscellaneous Works - Page 97
by William Hazlitt - 1854
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...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...been ; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. * * A great part of antiquity contented their Lopes of subsistency with a transmigration...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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 mast ke content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God,, not in the...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...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...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...
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 1

1820 - 394 pages
...decked with unrejoicing berries!" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime: " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must...not been, to be found 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...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 1

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...decked with unrejoicing berries !" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime : " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must...not been, to be found 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...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...known account of time ? Ike 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...not been, to be found 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...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...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...not been, to be found 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...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methusaleh's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired...not been, to be found 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...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

1826 - 548 pages
...known account of time ? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life bad been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired....been ; to be found 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...
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Literary gems [ed. by J.S.].

Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...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, to be found 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...
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