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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Page 112
1830
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon without the favour of the everlasting register. 1 ` -t F x( f ޑ 푘 J H > a1%Y+ > * ɉ C `\- o , u... +> c ' C j]Q { ^ Ö M - 9è first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle....
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Murray's Magazine, Volume 1

1887 - 886 pages
...be sold to the tenants on reasonable terms. SM HUSSEY. (Slueen's Hssa\> flfoaster. "Who knows . . . whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot,...that stand remembered in the known account of time." — SIR THOMAS BROWNE. THE titles of various officers of state, such as the "Queen's Remembrancer"...
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English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray

Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 pages
...Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting Register : \Vho knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, then any that stand remembred in the known account of time ? The first man had been as unknown as the...
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The Military Surgeon: Journal of the Association of Military ..., Volume 25

1909 - 898 pages
...scattereth her poppy, anil deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. * * * "Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable men forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time." — Sir Thomas Browne, 1686....
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 58

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1923 - 706 pages
...affection written this inadequate note of appreciation. " Who knows whether the best of men be known, whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot...that stand remembered in the known account of time?" HARVEY GUSHING. MARCUS PERRIN KNOWLTON (1839-1918). Fellow in Clara III, Section 1, 1911. Marcus Perrin...
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Annual Report - National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - 1918 - 1114 pages
...inadequate note of appreciation: Who knows whether the best of men be known, whether there be not mop remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time. BC (Science, vol. 51, No. 1452, October 27, 1922, pp. 461-464.) Ml \u \ MARION HOWE. In the death of...
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John Hopton: A Fifteenth Century Suffolk Gentleman

Colin Richmond - 2005 - 292 pages
...in Blithing hundre, were Hopton is grete...' John Bocking to John Pasten 8 May 1456 Davis I, p1 42 Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether...more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembred in the known account of time? Sir Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Burial' in Works, ed. Geoffrey Keynes,...
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Turmoil in New Mexico

William Aloysius Keleher - 1982 - 580 pages
...scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit and perpetuity . . . who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable men forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time. " Sir Thomas Browne, 1686....
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Historical Linguistics and Language Change

Roger Lass - 1997 - 452 pages
...our good names, since bad have equall durations; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether...more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembred in the known account of time? Without the favour of the everlasting Register the first man...
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Selected Writings

Sir Thomas Browne - 2003 - 180 pages
...our good names, sinee 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...be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that 25 1 И ] thetal is the firsl letter ofthanatos1death 1 26].'Old ones being taken up, and other bodies...
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