To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate? Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 6501920Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Andrew James Symington - 1884 - 154 Seiten
...of our subsistencies ? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Caananitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias...rather have been the good thief, than Pilate?' The way to gain a good reputation, accord*9 ing to Socrates, is to ' endeavour to be what you desire to... | |
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 Seiten
...of our subsistencies? To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Cauaauitish» woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias*...not rather have been the good thief» than Pilate?» But the iniquity4 of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 Seiten
...nature." And then he gives that exquisite and oftenquoted passage, " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman...name than Herodias with one ; and who had not rather be the good thief than Pilate ? " That great satirist, Thackeray, in his powerful work " Vanity Fair,"... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1886 - 542 Seiten
...and soul of our subsistences] KTo be nameless »[J in__worthy deedj^ exceeds an infamous, binary \ The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate ? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, .,• and deals with the memory of men... | |
| William Mathews - 1887 - 406 Seiten
...and Thersites is likely to live as long as Agamemnon without the favor of the Everlasting Register. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one ; and who had rather not have been the good thief than Pilate ? " Even those who have basked longest in the sunshine... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 Seiten
...balsam of our memories, the entclechia and soul of our subsistencies i To be nameless in worthy deeds, U + llerodias with one. And who had not rather have boen the good thief than Pilate? But the iniquity of... | |
| Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 Seiten
...familiar faces, and at loatforyot tlutt he had ever been a poet. — Timba. 2143. FAME, Good and evil. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a...and who had not rather have been the good thief than I'ilate ?— Sir ^liomo» Browne. 2144. FAME, Image of. Besides the letters (cuneiform inscriptions... | |
| Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 Seiten
...balsame of our memories, the Entelechia and soul of our subsistences. To be namelesse in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, then Herodias with one. And who would not rather have been the good theef, then Pilate? But the iniquity... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 296 Seiten
...or Commodus, Messalina or Heliogabalus, King John or Eichard III. ? "To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman...happily without a name than Herodias with one; and who would not rather have been the good thief than Pilate?" 1 Kings and Generals are often remembered as... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 Seiten
...balsam of our memories, the entelechia 19 and soul of our subsistences ? To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
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