| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired ; the greater part must be content to be as though they...been ; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. * * A great part of antiquity contented their Lopes of subsistency with a transmigration... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...Methuselah's long life, had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired ; the greater part mast ke content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God,, not in the record of man. * * A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. 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, pot in the record of man. * * A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a... | |
| 1820 - 394 pages
...berries!" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime: " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they...been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
| Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...!" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime : " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they...been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must be content to be as though they...been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since, contain... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must be content to be as though they...been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since, contain... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...as the last, and Methusaleh's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must be content to be as though they...been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
| 1826 - 548 pages
...unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they...been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twentyseven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever 'since contain... | |
| Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...only chronicle. . i ,; i .. . .:, in:. ^:-„>,..:,i. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater put 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 first story,* and the recorded names ever since contain... | |
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