 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. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the Flood, and the recorded names ever since...  Religio Medici: And Other Essays - Página 299de Sir Thomas Browne - 1902 - 305 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1819 - 596 páginas
...other hand, always bring with them a subdued but vivid feeling. ' The number of the dead,' he says, ' long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time...far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the aequinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 páginas
...other hand, always bring with them a subdued but vivid feeling. ' The number of the dead," he says, ' long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time...far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the aequinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 páginas
...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. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | 1820 - 394 páginas
...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. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 páginas
...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. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since, contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 páginas
...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. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since, contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...found in the 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...far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the jEquinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since... | |
 | 1826 - 548 páginas
...found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twentyseven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever 'since contain not one...exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpassed! the day, and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic,... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 páginas
...hired. The greater put 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. Twenty-seven names make up the first story,* and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | 1826 - 548 páginas
...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. Twentyseven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
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