 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired ; the greater part must be content to be as though they...in the register of God, not in the record of man. * * A great part of antiquity contented their Lopes of subsistency with a transmigration of their souls.... | |
 | 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...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 - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. 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, pot in the record of man. * * A great part of antiquity contented their hopes of subsistency with a... | |
 | 1820 - 394 pages
...berries!" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime: " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they...of man. 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... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...!" He thus immortalizes transitoriness, and makes oblivion sublime : " Oblivion is not to be hired: the greater part must be content to be as though they...of man. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must be content to be as though they...of man. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. " Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must be content to be as though they...of man. 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - College stories - 1823 - 380 pages
...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 - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...as the last, and Methusaleh's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired : the greater part must be content to be as though they...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... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle. Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they...of man. 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... | |
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Twentyseven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the... 
