 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 דפים
...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...the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methusaleh's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 דפים
...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...the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Metlwselah's long life had been his only chronicle. . i ,; i .. . .:, in:. ^:-„>,..:,i. Oblivion... | |
 | 1826 - 548 דפים
...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...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life bad been his only chronicle.... | |
 | 1826 - 548 דפים
...Agamemnon, without the favor of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known f or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot,...that 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.... | |
 | 1820 - 398 דפים
...glimpse into the night of forgotten things, — a halflifting of the veil of oblivion, — does he ask, " who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ?" Having, with further richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy, shewn the uncertainty of all... | |
 | 1828 - 1538 דפים
...our good names, since bad have equal durations ; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Without the favour of the everlasting register, the...last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle." 1 Thebes has been more fortunate than either Troy or Carthage, in the circumstance of some... | |
 | 1830 - 550 דפים
...divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings. Who knows whether the best of men be known : or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? — The sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 דפים
...Who knows whether the best of men bo known ; or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgut eye ! Deep arc his feet in tlrst man had been as unknown as the last, and McthuNebih's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 362 דפים
...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...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... | |
 | 1831 - 370 דפים
...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...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... | |
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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... 
