| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 páginas
...our good names, since bad have equal duration ; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 páginas
...our good names, sinee bad have equal duration ; and Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 232 páginas
...in the baptism of water ! We shall have good company whose names are left unspoken by posterity. " Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 444 páginas
...in the baptism of water ! We shall have good company whose names are left unspoken by posterity. " Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 438 páginas
...in the baptism of water ! We shall have good company whose names are left unspoken by posterity. " Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...stand remembered in the known account of time ? The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been ; to be found in the register of God,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 páginas
...\nd Thersites is like to live as long as Agamemnon, without the favor of the everlasting register. Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time 1 The first man had been as unknown as the last, anil Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.... | |
| Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 páginas
...Epitaphs, entitled ' Inscriptiones Antiqua. " with Agamemnon. He puts this curious question : — " Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the power of the everlasting register the first man had been unknown as the last, and Methuselah's... | |
| Casket - 1874 - 840 páginas
...Thersites is like to live as long ae Agamemnon without the savour of the everlasting register. \Vlio knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether...not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stum] remembered in the known account of time? the first man IKH! lx?en as unknown as the last, and... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 412 páginas
...peculiarities of his style, the following passage will furnish an adequate and sufficient specimen:— "Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting register the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 páginas
...peculiarities of his style, the following passage will furnish an adequate and sufficient specimen : — " Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether...that stand remembered in the known account of time ? Without the favour of the everlasting register the first man had been as unknown as the last, and... | |
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