 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 228 pages
...not more remarkable persons forgot than \ any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Oblivion is not to be hired ; the greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. There is nothing strictly immortal but immortality ! But man is a noble animal — splendid in ashes,... | |
 | 1852 - 892 pages
...frown upon the poor curate's memory, because he was not ever mindful of Sir Thomas Browne's thought, " Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...found in the register of God, not in the record of men."* Recalling the brave struggles of his true heart against the cold, hard, " iron realities" of... | |
 | Alexander Haldane - 1852 - 708 pages
...pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. * * The greater part of men tnust be content to be as though they had not been, to be...found in the register of God, not in the record of men." It will be sufficient to state, that the most eminent of the mediaeval Barons of Gleneagles was... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - 1799 - 208 pages
...earth " in the beginning of the gospel," the greater part must, so far as earthly fame is concerned, " be content to be as though they had not been : to be found in the register of God, not in the records of men."* We may feel as if it would have been pleasant for us to know the names, that we might... | |
 | 1864 - 764 pages
...successfully keep, for many years to come, its perfectly harmless place on the English stage. THE FOSSIL MAN. "The greater part must be content to be as though...been : to be found in the register of God, not in the records of men. Tha number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall lire. The Night of Time far surpasaeth... | |
 | Alexander Haldane - 1853 - 616 pages
...pass while some /trees stand, and old families last not three oaks. * * * The .greater part of men must be content to be as though they had not been,...found in the register of God, not in the record >of men." It will be sufficient to state, that the most eminent of the mediaeval Barons of Gleneagles was... | |
 | George Godwin - 1853 - 246 pages
...but how few attain their desire. As Sir Thomas Browne says, — " The greatest part must be contented to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God, not in the records of man." Of Palladio's works, saying nothing of those intermediate, you will remember many,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life hod been his only chronicle. " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must...not been, to be found in the register of God, not in tne record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicleOblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicleOblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had cot been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up... | |
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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. 
