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. Publications - Page 101by Arkansas Historical Association - 1911Full view - About this book
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...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...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 - 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 - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...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 pages
...decked with unrejoicing berries !" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime : " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must...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... | |
| 1820 - 394 pages
...decked with unrejoicing berries!" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime: " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must...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 - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...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...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 - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...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...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 - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...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... | |
| Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...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...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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