| Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 474 páginas
...truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first 309 story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 páginas
...everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. ' Oblivion is not to be hired....of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the... | |
| James Currie (A.M.) - 1871 - 136 páginas
...are exercises in language and in thought at the same time Oblivion is not to be hired the greatest part must be content to be as though they had not...found in the register of God not in the record of man. 5. Interrogation. The Interrogation is the point used after a question, as, What is his name ? In such... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 232 páginas
...be not 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...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century." I have my moods... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 444 páginas
...be not 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...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century." I have my moods... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 554 páginas
...fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S URN BURIAL. THE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris. Both... | |
| Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 páginas
...been his only chronicle." He draws this conclusion : — " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greatest part must be content to be as though they had not...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood ; and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. * The number of... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 478 páginas
...and Methuselah's long life had been his only chroniclé. Oblivion is not to be hired : thé greatest part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in thé register of God, not in thé record of man. Twenty-seven names make up thé first story before... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 páginas
...find their graves in our short memories., and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must...in the register of God, not in the record of man. SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S Urn Burial. nTHE cemetery of Pere la Chaise is the Westminster Abbey of Paris.... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 páginas
...last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greatest part must be content to be as though they ha-d not...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood ; and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of... | |
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