 | 1909 - 898 pagina’s
...CLEMENTS, SURGEON UNITED STATES ARMY. " the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, anil deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. * * * "Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable men forgot, than any... | |
 | William Aloysius Keleher - 1982 - 580 pagina’s
...0-8263-0631^4. International Standard Book Number (paperbound) 0-8263-0632-2. "The iniquity of oblivion scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit and perpetuity . . . who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagina’s
...its heart to the shrine of the dead past. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian author, philosopher But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English physician, author Life is all memory, except for the one present... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pagina’s
...degrading all fame into notoriety. DANIEL J. BOORSTIN (b. 191 4l, US historian. The Image, ch. 2 (1961). 3 itical and Miscellaneous Essays, vol. 7, 1839). 8 In matters of religion and matrimony 1 SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-82), English physician, author. Um tturial.ch. 5(1658). 6 Happy is the man... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagina’s
...as "decent obscurity," following the parody in The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine of the time. 1 But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. THOMAS BROWNE, (1605-1682) British physician, author. Urn Burial, ch. 5 (1 658). 2 A few more days,... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 2002 - 334 pagina’s
...human achievement, the physician-writer (and Osler's favorite author) Sir Thomas Browne, observed: "But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. . . . Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part [of men] must be content to be as though they *Reprinted... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 2003 - 180 pagina’s
...enteleehia" and soul of our subsistenees? To be nameless in worthy deeds eaeeeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. ч And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?'" But the iniquity of oblivion blindly... | |
 | James W. Raab - 2014 - 216 pagina’s
...Palatka. Miss Maggie lived to be ninety-nine years old, dying May 7, 1965. Finis The iniquity of oblivion scattereth her poppy and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit and perpetuity ... who know whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable... | |
 | Albert Borowitz - 2005 - 220 pagina’s
...Browne argues, for "to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history." Browne reminds us that "the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy...of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity," preferring the ravager of Ephesus to the world's great builders: "Who can but pity the founder of the... | |
 | Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - 2006 - 597 pagina’s
...that we can die but once. Religio Medici Thomas Browne; 1658 658 But the iniquity of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity... Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to... | |
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To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate? 
