 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...  Essays in Biography - Pagina 307door Charles Whibley - 1913 - 311 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pagina’s
...and noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences 1 To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate 1 * The character of death. f "Cuperem notum esse quod aim non opto ut sciatur quails sim." But the... | |
 | 1869 - 384 pagina’s
...scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. . . But to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate ? 2 Cor. vi. 9. — Sir Thomas Browne. Whose young daughter had an unclean spirit. Youth enters upon... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 552 pagina’s
...eternity, if unknown among men in time. How wisely and wittily says the quaint Sir Thomas Brown, " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...happily without a name than Herodias with one. And %vho would not rather be the good thief than Pilate ? " The evanescence of the works and names even... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 pagina’s
...entelechia and soul of our subsistences," are rightly estimated by him as nothing. He proceeds : — "To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?" He considers the " iniquity " — or, as we should now say, the inequality — " of oblivion." He pities... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 pagina’s
...which are the balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences. To be ñámele-- in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish...Herodias with one And who had not rather have been the p>x¡ thief, than Pilate? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scatter eth her poppy, and deals with... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pagina’s
...deserts and noble acts which are the balsam of our memories, the entetechia and soul of our subsistences? To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? " But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pagina’s
...soul of our subsistences. To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Cauaauitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias...not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth fcer poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pagina’s
...and noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate ? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pagina’s
...and noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the cntdcchia and soul of our subsistences ? s. On the ]/ ? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Mary Abby Thaxter Peloubet - 1881 - 338 pagina’s
...he whose name is like ointment poured out "could not be hid." — 7rench, 25. For a certain woman. To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...more happily without a name than Herodias with one. — Sir Thomas Brown. Heard of him. She had heard of the mighty works which the Saviour of Israel had... | |
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