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 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1862 - 476 pages
...noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the " entelechia " and soul of our subsistences ? Yet to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? * Gruteri Inscriptiones Antiqura. t Which men show in several countries, giving them what names they... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1862 - 468 pages
...noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the " entelechia " and soul of our subsistences ? Yet to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? * Gruteri Inscriptiones Antiques. t Which men show in several countries, giving them what names they... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1862 - 554 pages
...noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the " entelechia " and soul of our subsistences ? Yet to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? * Gruteri Inscriptiones Antiquse. t Which men show in several countries, giving them what names they... | |
 | Words, Horatius Bonar - Christianity - 1866 - 370 pages
...ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designs. 2. To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who would not rather have been the penitent thief than Pilate ? 3. Many that feared to die shall groan... | |
 | Bible - 1869 - 384 pages
...scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. . . But to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate? 2 Cor. vi. 9.— Sir Thomas Browne. Whose young daughter had an unclean spirit. Youth enters upon the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1869 - 244 pages
...and noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences ? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate ? * The character of death. "f" "Caperem notum esse quod aim non opto ut sciatur qualin eim." H YD... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1869 - 326 pages
...thirteenth century, may not unaptly be compared. To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamoua history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who would not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate ? But so have I seen the sun kiss the frozen... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1870 - 544 pages
...eternity, if unknown among men in time. How wisely and wittily says the quaint Sir Thomas Brown, " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who would not rather be the good thief than Pilate ?" The evanescence of the works and names even of exalted... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 pages
...entelechia and soul of our subsistences," are rightly estimated by him as nothing. He proceeds :— "To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?" He considers the " iniquity "—or, as we should now say, the inequality—" of oblivion." He pities... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1878 - 480 pages
...noble acts, which are the balsam of our memories, the " entelechia " and soul of our subsistences ? Yet to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? * Gruteri Inscriptiones Antiquse. t Which men show in several countries, giving them what names they... | |
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