 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1882 - 220 pages
...and 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...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.... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 538 pages
...our good names, since bad have equal durations; nud Thersites is like to live ns 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... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 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...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, to... | |
 | Books - 1882 - 512 pages
...Literary World. BOSTON, MARCH I!, 1882. Entered M tb« Рм! ОЛее tt Boil i., u Moond-elu* m»tU>r. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? — SIR... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1923 - 812 pages
...affection written this inadequate note of appreciation. "Who knows whether the best of men be known, whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot...that stand remembered in the known account of time?" HC EARTH CURRENTS AND MAGNETIC VARIATIONS WHENEVER two metallic conductors are buried in the earth... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 270 pages
...in the baptism of water ! We shall have good company whose names are left unspoken by posterity. ' ' Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 440 pages
...in the baptism of water ! We shall have good company whose names are left unspoken by posterity. " Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1884 - 478 pages
...left unspoken by posterity. " Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether_thereJEe Jiot^ more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1886 - 542 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1891 - 480 pages
...liketolive as long as Agamemnon, without thé favour of thé everlasting register. Who knows whether thé best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that tand remembered in thé known account of time? Without thé favour of thé everlasting register, thé... | |
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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... 
