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" The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? "
The Quarterly review - Page 360
1819
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From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-nine Portraits and Selections from ...

Henry Augustin Beers - 1899 - 346 pages
...first story, and the reported names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time...far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 14

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 446 pages
...first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time...far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. . . . Darkness...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...first story,4 and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead e and Yarico. '"Mr. Thomas Inkle, of London, aged twenty years, embarked equinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since death...
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The Life of Sir William Osler, Volume 2

Harvey Cushing - 1926 - 794 pages
...first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time...far surpasseth the day ; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. On the fly-leaf...
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Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to Clarendon

Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 pages
...the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time...far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic which scarce stands one moment. And since death...
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An Introduction to Anthropology

Wilson Dallam Wallis - 1926 - 550 pages
...1916. CHAPTER III PLACE OF ORIGIN, DISTRIBUTION, AND PHYSICAL TYPES OF MANHOOD "The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knovveth when was the Equinox." — SIR THOMAS BROWNE. "The appearance upon the earth of the genus...
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Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English ...

Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pages
...the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time...far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. And since death...
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Death and Taxes

Tony Kushner - 2000 - 340 pages
...and a rare hand with a rubber chicken. Sir Thomas Browne and the Restoration The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time...the day, and who knows when was the Aequinox? Every houre addes unto that current Arithmetique, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be...
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The Shape of Irish History

Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart - 2001 - 232 pages
...are no longer the only, or the best, people to tell us the truth about the past. The Night of Time The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the Equinox? SIR THOMAS BROWNE 1 The Case of the Missing Millennia In 1642 Dr John Lightfoot, the Master...
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Passageways: Fifty Short Paths Through Time

A.M. Tonkinson - 2002 - 70 pages
...more fulfilled? If we are to see our way forward we also have to reflect upon where we have come from. "The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was (he equinox?" (Thomas Browne) We have grown used to measuring our time by our clocks and watches. But...
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