 To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?  Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects - Page 259by John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - 1890 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 444 pages
...of our subsistencies ? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaan itish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather been the good thief than Pilate ? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...of our subsistencies ? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather been the good thief than Pilate ? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1899 - 988 pages
...act." Thomas Dover, Physician and Buccaneer — As Sir Thomas Brown remarks in "The Hydriotaphia: " ''The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of man without distinction to merit of perpetuity." Thus it happens that Thomas Dover the doctor has drifted... | |
 | Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - 1901 - 432 pages
...soul of our subsistences? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather been the good thief than Pilate? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals... | |
 | 1901 - 440 pages
...soul of our subsistences? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather been the good thief than Pilate? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals... | |
 | 1901 - 436 pages
...soul of our subsistences? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather been the good thief than Pilate? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...soul of our subsistences. To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias...than Pilate ? ' But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattered! her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.... | |
 | Kate Stephens - 1905 - 352 pages
...longanimity, you do not drive the generality closer; you drown your reflections in Sir Thomas Browne : "The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy...without distinction to merit of perpetuity. . . . Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot than... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1905 - 484 pages
...longs espoirs comme des rêves et comme une attente d'insensés1. » \. But the iniquity of oîilivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction lo inerit of perpetuity : who can but pity the founder of the pyrainids? llcrostratus lives- that burnt... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pages
...soul of our subsistences? To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who 10 had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth... | |
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