| Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...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...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 Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Oblivion is not to be hired : the greatest part must be content to bo as though they had not been ; tu be found in the 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 living century. The number <_>f... | |
| 1848 - 574 pages
...last, and Methusela's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greatest part must be content to be as though they had 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...and Methuselah's lang life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greatest . [Hallo my Fancy.'] [Anonymous.] In melancholic fancy, before the flood ; and the recorded names ever «¡все contain not one living century. The number... | |
| 1889 - 670 pages
...notorious is a healthy sign. We do not think that it is so in many cases. As Sir Thomas Browne has said, " The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of Qod, not in the record of man"; and there seems no adequate reason why, because a man has benefitted... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1849 - 238 pages
...been, to be found in the register of God, not in tne record of man. Twenty-seven names make up t!ie first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. Th3 number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpassetli the day,... | |
| William Quereau Force - 1850 - 292 pages
...Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families lut not three oaks. Oblivion is not to he hired. The greater part must be content to be as though...in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-ieven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
| 1889 - 562 pages
...notorious is a healthy sign. We do not think that it is so in many cases. As Sir Thomas-Browne has said, " The greater part must be content to be as though they...in the register of God, not in the record of man"; and there seems no adequate reason why, because a man has benefitted bis country by a life of thought... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...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 living century. The number of the dead long exccedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the... | |
| 1851 - 608 pages
...holocaust, a man may carry his own pyre." The Hydriotnphia contains many passages of a higher tone : — " Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...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... | |
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