 | George Burnett - 1807 - Počet stránok 556
...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 there be not more remarkable p«irsons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - Počet stránok 546
...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 there b£not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time... | |
 | 1832 - Počet stránok 384
...of time, and oblivion shareth with memory a great portion even of our living beings. Who can tell if the best of men be known ? or whether there be not...more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand recorded in the known account of time?" These are startling suggestions, and may lead our thoughts... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - Počet stránok 514
...glimpse into 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...persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in ihe known account of time Î" Having, with farther richness of illustration, and quaint philosophy,... | |
 | 1848 - Počet stránok 738
...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 there be not more remarkable men forgot than any that stand remembered in the account of time ? Without the favor of the everlasting... | |
 | 1851 - Počet stránok 486
...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 there be cot more remarkable- persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of Time ?... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - Počet stránok 716
...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... | |
 | 1894 - Počet stránok 1020
...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... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1861 - Počet stránok 178
...profit me, in death, to be The mightiest name in this world's history ? ©n if a famig of (Continued.) " Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any tbat stand remembered in the known account of time ? Mummy hath become merchandise; Mizraim cures wounds,... | |
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Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equal! 
