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" 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? "
The Retrospective Review - Page 90
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Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of ...

William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 pages
...century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all who shall live. The night of time far snrpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans...
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Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880).

James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...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...that current arithmetick, which scarce stands one 19 A word used by Aristotle of the soul as the tnlrltchia of the body, that by which the body actually...
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A History of English Literature: From Beowulf to 1926, Volume 1

William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1926 - 410 pages
...mad hope, becomes such in a much greater degree as the world grows old and nears its end : when it was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetick, which scarce standeth one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether...
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A History of English Literature: The middle ages & the renascence (650-1660 ...

Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - 1926 - 416 pages
...mad hope, becomes such in a much greater degree as the world grows old and nears its end : when it was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetick, which scarce standeth one moment. And since death must be the L.ncina of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether...
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Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English ...

Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pages
...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...was the equinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of 137 life, and even...
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Death and Taxes

Tony Kushner - 2000 - 340 pages
...gentleman of the theater, and a rare hand with a rubber chicken. Sir Thomas Browne and the Restoration The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall...far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the Aequinox? Every houre addes unto that current Arithmetique, which scarce stands one moment. And since...
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The Shape of Irish History

Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart - 2001 - 232 pages
...are no longer the only, or the best, people to tell us the truth about the past. The Night of Time The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the Equinox? SIR THOMAS BROWNE 1 The Case of the Missing Millennia In 1642 Dr John Lightfoot, the Master of St Catharine's...
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Passageways: Fifty Short Paths Through Time

A.M. Tonkinson - 2002 - 70 pages
...more fulfilled? If we are to see our way forward we also have to reflect upon where we have come from. "The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was (he equinox?" (Thomas Browne) We have grown used to measuring our time by our clocks and watches. But...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...Register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty seven Names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living Century. The...the day, and who knows when was the Equinox? Every houre addes unto that current Arithmetique, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be...
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