 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 404 pages
...lost that built it ; time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse — confounded that of himself. Who knows whether the best of men be known? or, whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Oblivion is not to be hired ; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 430 pages
...duration ; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether VOL. I. 21 the be2t of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? \Vithout the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations: and Theraites 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1878 - 598 pages
...good names, since bad have equal durations; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. AVho knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time? Without the favor of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's... | |
 | 1879 - 336 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...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 - 1879 - 428 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnou, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known ; or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot than nny that stand remembered in the known account of time. Without the favour of the everlasting register,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...of our good names, since bad have equal durations, and Thersites is like toliveas long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the knows account of time? Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon without the favour of the everlasting register. aligna liret man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...in the baptism of water ! We shall have good company whose names are left unspoken by posterity. ' Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God,... | |
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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... 
