| Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 pages
...forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks Oblivion 309 story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedcth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day ; and who knows when was the... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1868 - 336 pages
...last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greatest part must be content to be as though they had not...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood; and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the... | |
| Charles Loring Brace - 1869 - 462 pages
...existence of the FOSSIL or PRE-ADAMITIC MAN.* As says Sir Thomas Browne:— The greater part must he content to be as though they had not been: to be found in the register of God, not in the records of men. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The Night of Time far surpasseth... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 474 pages
...truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first 309 story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. ' Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the... | |
| James Currie (A.M.) - 1871 - 136 pages
...are exercises in language and in thought at the same time Oblivion is not to be hired the greatest part must be content to be as though they had not...found in the register of God not in the record of man. 5. Interrogation. The Interrogation is the point used after a question, as, What is his name ? In such... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 pages
...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 contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exeeedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 232 pages
...be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century." I have my moods... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 444 pages
...be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century." I have my moods... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 pages
...fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S URN BURIAL. THE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris. Both... | |
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