 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...known account of lime 1 the 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...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... | |
 | 1894 - 1020 pages
...there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known count of time ? "Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man." By some alchemic process of the mind brooding upon this ancient theme, the above-quoted paragraphs... | |
 | 1862 - 796 pages
...rent in twain, Shall be one again, And without a seam ! THE FOSSIL MAN. 'f'.' ' * ? ,/>*.: The srater part must be content to be as though they had not been : to be found in the resister of God, not in the records of men. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that (hall lire.... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...everlasting register, 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....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 Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...everlasting register, 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....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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 608 pages
...fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. — SIR THOMAS BROWN'S Urn Burial. THE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 552 pages
...everlasting register, 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....names make up the first story, and the recorded names Before the • . ,. . ™ flood ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead Jong... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - 1862 - 574 pages
...ENQLAND —CHANGE OF VIEWS—PASTORAL ADDRESSRETURN. " THE greater part," says good Sir Thomas Browne, " must be content to be as though they had not been...in the register of God — not in the record of man ; " and among the many so destined to pass away into the Silent Land, few have been humbler and less... | |
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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. 
