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 all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every... The Quarterly Review - Page 346edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...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....descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it can not be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes; since the brother of Death... | |
| Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 pages
...his faultless style and, more particularly, his mastery of the sonorous periodic sentence. "And _J since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest sunne sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pages
...surpas^eth the day, and who knows when was the Equinox? Every hour adds unto that current "Arithmetick, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans 214 could doubt whether thus to live were to die ; Since our longest Sun sets at right descensions,... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox? Every hour adds unto , was the celebrated Petronius, who invented the pleasant...between the sexes, which has been either a point of disp declensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness,... | |
| Jacob Zeitlin - 1926 - 408 pages
...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 must be the Lucina of life, and even pagans1 could doubt, whether thus to live, were to die; since our longest sun sets at right descensions,... | |
| Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pages
...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 must be the Lucina of 137 life, and even pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1927 - 212 pages
...unto that current Arithmetique, which fcarce ftandsone moment* And 77 fince death muft be the Latin* of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our loogeft Sunne fets at right defcenfions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore... | |
| 1837 - 572 pages
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| William Hazlitt - 1931 - 422 pages
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