 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pagina’s
...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...in the register of God, not in the record of man. * * • A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pagina’s
...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...in the register of God,, not in the record of man. * * A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pagina’s
...promise such diuturnity unto his reliques, or might not gladly say, " Sic ego componi versus in ossa velim ?" " Time, which antiquates antiquities, and...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 all... | |
 | 1820 - 394 pagina’s
...grave, than any to which we have yet particularly alluded. He derives the nobleness of our natare, even from its mortality on earth. In the most opposite...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 all... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pagina’s
...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...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 all... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pagina’s
...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...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 all... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1823 - 380 pagina’s
...THEIR GRAVES IN OUR SHORT MEMORIES, AND SADLY TELL US HOW WE SHALL BE BURIED IN OUR SURVIVORS. L.ET ME BE FOUND IN THE REGISTER OF GOD, NOT IN THE RECORD OF MAN." " Poor Barbara," said Mrs Elizabeth, after our youth had read the words aloud; — "poor Barbara !... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methusaleh's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must...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 not one living... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pagina’s
...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...Twentyseven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever 'since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all... | |
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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. 
