 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Biography - 1852 - 224 pages
...lost that built it ; time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, — confounded that of himself. Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or, whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Oblivion is not to be hired ; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christianity - 1852 - 574 pages
...our good 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...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 538 pages
...course of time, and oblivion shares with many a great part even of our living beings. \Vho knows wheiher the best of men be known, or whether there be not...sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earrhly glory; and the quality of either state, after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory." "... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...Agamemnon, without the favour il the everlasting register. Who knows whether the Ьы of men be known I or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand renumbered in the known account of time I Without th* favour of the everlasting register, the first... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...and 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...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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 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...any that stand remembered in the known account of lime 1 the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life hod been his only... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...ind Thnrsites 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...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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...and 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...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.... | |
 | American essays - 1894 - 1020 pages
...no hiding-place did fall 1 In his Urn Burial Sir Thomas Browne has this inquiry and answer : — " Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...forgot than any that stand remembered in the known count of time ? "Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1858 - 354 pages
...not BO many renowned men that their tombs need to be hidden. "Who knows," says a celebrated writer,* "whether the best of men be known, or whether there...that stand remembered in the known account of time?" "What grand visions spring out of this hope to be realised in a future state of existence ? What a... | |
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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... 
