 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?  Turmoil in New Mexico - Stran vavtor: William Aloysius Keleher - 1982 - 534 straniOmejen predogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 strani
...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 there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in ihe known account of time Î" Having, with farther... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 strani
...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 persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The first man had been... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 strani
...knows whether the best of VOL. n. — 4 men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any 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 Methuselah's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 strani
...register. Who knows whether the best of men be known 1 or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that 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.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 strani
...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 not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the favour of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 strani
...and Thcrsites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favour ol the everlasting register. а• I have not faleely sworn. FROM 1649 FÏ05E WEITERS. ABRAHAM COWLET. Of Obscur persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time i Without the favour of... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1847 - 388 strani
...so many renowned men that their tombs need to be hidden. "Who knows, "says a celebrated writer,1'' "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 ?" What grand visions spring... | |
 | 1848 - 738 strani
...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...remarkable men forgot than any that stand remembered in the account of time ? Without the favor of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown... | |
 | 1848 - 574 strani
...disposition in which envy forms a striking feature free from the love of gold. IMMORTALITY AND OBLIVION. — 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 ? Without the favour of... | |
 | 1851 - 486 strani
...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 ?... | |
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