| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...and Thersites is like to live .as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who • knows whether the best of men be known, or...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.... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long*as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable p«irsons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there b£not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...into the night of forgotten things, — a half-lifting 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 farther richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy, shewn the uncertainty of all... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour 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.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 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,...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Ike first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 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... | |
| 1826 - 548 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 bad been his only chronicle.... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 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... | |
| 1826 - 548 pages
...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,...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.... | |
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