 | Charles Loring Brace - Ethnology - 1863 - 562 pages
...PRE-ADAMITIC MAS. As says Sir Thomas Browne : The greater part must be content to be as though they h«d not been : to be found in the register of God, not in the recoidi of men. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The Night of Time far surpasseth... | |
 | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - Electronic journals - 1864 - 348 pages
...find their gravei in onr abort memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in onr survivors " "Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to br as thongh they hud not been ; to be fonnd in the register of God, not in the records of men. Twentyseven... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 492 pages
...life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greatest part must be content te be as though they had not been; to be found in the register <.' God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood; and... | |
 | Buffalo (N.Y.). Forest Lawn Cemetery - 1867 - 188 pages
...Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams." Truly, it was well said by Sir Thomas Browne, " Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been—to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pages
...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. The greater part must...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | Charles Loring Brace - Ethnology - 1869 - 462 pages
...existence of the FOSSIL or PRE-ADAMITIC MAN.* As says Sir Thomas Browne:— The greater part must he content to be as though they had not been: to be found in the register of God, not in the records of men. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The Night of Time far surpasseth... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...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...of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 474 pages
...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... | |
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1871 - 136 pages
...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 - Satire, American - 1872 - 232 pages
...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...names ever since contain not one living century." I have my moods about such things, as the young Astronomer has, as we all have. There are times when... | |
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Oblivion is not to be hired; the greater part must be content to be as though they had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. 
