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" 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. "
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1889
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English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray

Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 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 the record of man. Twenty seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living...
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The Life of Sir William Osler, Volume 2

Harvey Cushing - Medicine - 1925 - 796 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 ever since contain not one living...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 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 the Record of Man. Twenty-seven Names make up the first Story, and the recorded Names ever since contain not one living...
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The Life of Sir William Osler, Volume 2

Harvey Cushing - Biography - 1926 - 794 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 ever since contain not one living...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had myself with Ligon's Account of Barbadoes;1 and, in answer to your well Twenty-seven names make up the first story,4 and the recorded names ever since contain not one living...
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Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to Clarendon

Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 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...
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Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English ...

Percy Hazen Houston - English literature - 1926 - 548 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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 74

American essays - 1894 - 872 pages
...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 шап." By some alchemic process of the muid brooding upon this ancient theme, the above-quoted paragraphs...
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Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations

Sir William Osler - Medical ethics - 2001 - 416 pages
...oblivion must blindly scatter her poppy.'151 '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.'152 Nowhere in his writings does the prose flow with a more majestic roll. Take, for example,...
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The Quotable Osler

Sir William Osler - Medicine - 2002 - 334 pages
...permission of the American Medical Association. Copyright ©1999 by the American Medical Association. had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man" (1). Such was not to be Osler's fate, beginning with his birth at Bond Head, Ontario, on July 12, 1849,...
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