 | Harvey Cushing - 1926 - 794 páginas
...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 all...current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment. On the fly-leaf of the volume beneath an earlier entry, written in a vigorous hand : ' This copy goes... | |
 | Wilson Dallam Wallis - 1926 - 550 páginas
...Arboreal Man. London, 1916. CHAPTER III PLACE OF ORIGIN, DISTRIBUTION, AND PHYSICAL TYPES OF MANHOOD "The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall...The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knovveth when was the Equinox." — SIR THOMAS BROWNE. "The appearance upon the earth of the genus... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 páginas
...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...one moment. And since death must be the Lucina of 137 life, and even pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets... | |
 | Howard Marchitello - 1997 - 262 páginas
...discussion of the follies of human ambition for "diuturnity" culminates in Browne's famous crescendo: And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt whether thus to live, were to dye. Since our longest Sunne sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore... | |
 | Tony Kushner - 2000 - 340 páginas
...gentleman of the theater, and a rare hand with a rubber chicken. Sir Thomas Browne and the Restoration The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall...far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the Aequinox? Every houre addes unto that current Arithmetique, which scarce stands one moment. And since... | |
 | Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart - 2001 - 232 páginas
...are no longer the only, or the best, people to tell us the truth about the past. The Night of Time The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the Equinox? SIR THOMAS BROWNE 1 The Case of the Missing Millennia In 1642 Dr John Lightfoot, the Master of St Catharine's... | |
 | A.M. Tonkinson - 2002 - 70 páginas
...more fulfilled? If we are to see our way forward we also have to reflect upon where we have come from. "The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was (he equinox?" (Thomas Browne) We have grown used to measuring our time by our clocks and watches. But... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 páginas
...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 all...the day, and who knows when was the Equinox? Every houre addes unto that current Arithmetique, which scarce stands one moment. And since death must be... | |
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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. Twenty-seven names make up the first story before the flood, and the recorded names ever since... 
