 Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.  Notes and Queries - Page 3111889Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1864 - 764 pages
...place on the English stage. THE FOSSIL MAN. "The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been : to be found in the register of God, not in the records of men. Tha number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall lire. The Night of Time far surpasaeth... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...chronicle. " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in tne record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...chronicleOblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had cot been, to be found in the 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... | |
 | American essays - 1894 - 1020 pages
...count of time ? "Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man." By some alchemic process of the mind brooding upon this ancient theme, the above-quoted paragraphs... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the 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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 608 pages
...our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been — to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. — SIR THOMAS BROWN'S Urn Burial. THE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris.... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - 1862 - 574 pages
...ADDRESSRETURN. " THE greater part," says good Sir Thomas Browne, " must be content to be as though they had not been — to be found in the register of God — not in the record of man ; " and among the many so destined to pass away into the Silent Land, few have been humbler and less noticed... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1862 - 466 pages
...only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names Before the . . ... flood. ever since... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 592 pages
...chronicle. Oblivioa is not to be hired : the greatest part must be content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the 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... | |
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