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" Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time... "
Scenes and Stories of the Rhine - Page 173
by Matilda Betham-Edwards - 1863 - 214 pages
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...is like to live .as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who • knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there...stand remembered in the known account of time? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle....
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...Thersites is like to live as long*as Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable p«irsons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there bŁnot more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle....
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1831 - 602 pages
...course of пив, and oblivion shares with memory * Pcat part етеп of our living beings. Who knows whether the best of men be known : or whether there...remembered in the known account of time ? — The sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state,...
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 1

1820 - 394 pages
...the night of forgotten things,—a half-lifting of the veil of oblivion,—does he ask, " who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there...that stand remembered in the known account of time? Having, with farther richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy, shewn the uncertainty of all...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 1

Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...night of forgotten things, — a half-lifting of the veil of oblivion, — does he ask, " who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there...that stand remembered in the known account of time? Having, with farther richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy, shewn the uncertainty of all...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour of the -everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there...stand remembered in the known account of time? the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle....
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...Agamemnon, without the favour of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known 1 or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot,...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Ike first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle....
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...names, since 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 there...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

Theology - 1826 - 548 pages
...Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favor of the everlasting register- Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there...stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life bad been his only chronicle....
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