 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 - Page 6501920Full view - About this book
 | William D'Arcy Haley - Conduct of life - 1855 - 190 pages
...it will render him unserviceable both to God and man." — SELDEN. "To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name than Ilerodias with one To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Christian biography - 1858 - 88 pages
...Lamb's book of life." " Ihe Canaanitish woman," says the dear old writer, 80 HONOUR TO THE NAMELESS. " lives more happily without a name than Herodias with one. And who would not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ?" A bragging bully, who has impertinently elbowed... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...the balsam of our memories, the essence 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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...the balsam of our memories, the essence 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 1 But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1861 - 636 pages
...pleasant friend of the " Urn-burial," in another of his apt allusions : " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? " So Wordsworth sings the satisfying consciousness and lasting remembrance of — " That best portion... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 634 pages
...pleasant friend of the " Urn-burial," in another of his apt allusions : " To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman...had not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ? " So Wordsworth sings the satisfying consciousness and lasting remembrance of — " That best portion... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1862 - 476 pages
...our memories, the " entelechia " and soul of our subsistences ? Yet to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman...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... | |
 | Words, Horatius Bonar - Christianity - 1866 - 370 pages
...of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designs. 2. 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 penitent thief than Pilate ? 3. Many that feared to die shall groan... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1869 - 240 pages
...balsam of our memories, the entelechia and soul of our subsistences 1 To be nameless in worthy deeds, exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman...had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate 1 * The character of death. f "Cuperem notum esse quod aim non opto ut sciatur quails sim." But the... | |
 | Bible - 1869 - 384 pages
...the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. . . But to be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman...had 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... | |
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