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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. "
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by Arkansas Historical Association - 1911
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. had not been; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twentyseven names make up Ihe first story before the Flood; and the recorded names ever...
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The poet at the breakfast-table. Author's ed, Volume 1

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 270 pages
...be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they...been ; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names...
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The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with Fellow-boarders and the Reader

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 440 pages
...be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they...been ; to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names...
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Guy's Hospital Gazette, Volume 19

Dentistry - 1905 - 546 pages
...awaits the great majority of us, upon whom the iniquity of oblivion must blindly scatter her poppy. " The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Begister of God, not in the record of man." Nowhere in his writings does the prose flow with a more...
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Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations

Sir William Osler - Medical ethics - 2001 - 416 pages
...awaits the great majority of us, upon whom 'the iniquity of oblivion must blindly scatter her poppy.'151 'The greater part must be content to be as though...been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.'152 Nowhere in his writings does the prose flow with a more majestic roll. Take, for...
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The Quotable Osler

Sir William Osler - Medicine - 2002 - 334 pages
...permission of the American Medical Association. Copyright ©1999 by the American Medical Association. had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man" (1). Such was not to be Osler's fate, beginning with his birth at Bond Head, Ontario,...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...war, he supported the king and was rewarded with a knighthood in 1671. FROM Hydriotaphia: Urne-Burial 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...
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Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages

Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - Health & Fitness - 2006 - 597 pages
...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...been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man. Hydriotaphia or I 'rue Buriall Edward Young; 1742 659 All men think all men mortal but...
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Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris

Karen Newman, Owen Walker '33 Professor of Humanities Karen Newman - London (England) - 2007 - 232 pages
...Without the favour of the everlasting Register, the first man had been as unknown as the last. . . . 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" (167).34 Browne here points out the noncongruence between remembered name and remarkable...
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