 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 pages
...Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known 1 or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot...stand remembered in the known account of time'? the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known 1 or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot...stand remembered in the known account of time ? the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...and Thcrsites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour ol the everlasting register. а• I have not faleely sworn. FROM 1649 FÏ05E WEITERS. ABRAHAM COWLET. Of Obscurity. i Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1847 - 388 pages
...so many renowned men that their tombs need to be hidden. "Who knows, "says a celebrated writer,1'' "whether the best of men be known, or whether there...that stand remembered in the known account of time ?" What grand visions spring out of this hope to be realized in a future state of existence ? What... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known Î ha Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
 | 1848 - 574 pages
...disposition in which envy forms a striking feature free from the love of gold. IMMORTALITY AND OBLIVION. — Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting register the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favor of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there be not more remarkable men forgot than any that stand remembered in the account of time ? Without the favor of the everlasting... | |
 | 1851 - 486 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there be cot more remarkable- persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of Time ?... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 592 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
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Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time... 
