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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... "
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Página 112
1830
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The Uses of Biography: Romantic, Philosophic, and Didactic

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 224 páginas
...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...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 574 páginas
...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...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, Volumen3

George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 páginas
...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." "...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...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...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...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....
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volumen1

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 páginas
...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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...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....
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...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....
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volumen74

1894 - 1020 páginas
...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...
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The Poacher, and Other Pictures of Country Life

Thomas Miller - 1858 - 354 páginas
...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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