Voices from the Tombs; Or, Epitaphs, Original and Selected: With a Large Selection of Appropriate Texts of Scripture: and an Historical and Moral Essay on Sepulchral Customs, and Monumental InscriptionsSeeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1858 - 337 pages |
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... life - the nearness of death - the shortness of time - the duration of eternity - the worth of the soul- and the importance of true religion , chiefly guided the writer in making this selection , and led him to pass over many beautiful ...
... life - the nearness of death - the shortness of time - the duration of eternity - the worth of the soul- and the importance of true religion , chiefly guided the writer in making this selection , and led him to pass over many beautiful ...
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... life of the deceased , which , but for the folly of friends , blinded by affection , would never have been named . It may , therefore , be laid down as an axiom , " that it is better to say too little than too much , " leaving it to the ...
... life of the deceased , which , but for the folly of friends , blinded by affection , would never have been named . It may , therefore , be laid down as an axiom , " that it is better to say too little than too much , " leaving it to the ...
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... life's frailty , and the unfading bloom Of glory in the life that is to come ! ' Tis not on Seine's gay bank alone the hand Of friendship scatters roses on the tomb To veil its hideousness - on Severn's shore , And where Neath wanders ...
... life's frailty , and the unfading bloom Of glory in the life that is to come ! ' Tis not on Seine's gay bank alone the hand Of friendship scatters roses on the tomb To veil its hideousness - on Severn's shore , And where Neath wanders ...
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... life was compared to a journey ; death , to a sleep overcoming the tired way - farer ; to misfortune , as a storm that comes suddenly upon him ; to beauty , as a flower that fadeth away ; to human hope , as undermined by a current till ...
... life was compared to a journey ; death , to a sleep overcoming the tired way - farer ; to misfortune , as a storm that comes suddenly upon him ; to beauty , as a flower that fadeth away ; to human hope , as undermined by a current till ...
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... life , with the Lord our God " ( 1 Sam . xxv . 29 ) , there can be no doubt , from their peculiar and unvaried prac- tices from age to age , that an inscription is but the continuation of one of their ancient cus- toms . But from the ...
... life , with the Lord our God " ( 1 Sam . xxv . 29 ) , there can be no doubt , from their peculiar and unvaried prac- tices from age to age , that an inscription is but the continuation of one of their ancient cus- toms . But from the ...
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Page 27 - And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt...
Page 318 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Page 131 - HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation : so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 311 - I will ransom them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Page 52 - If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me ; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt : 30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace.
Page 316 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Page 315 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 21 - And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem ; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
Page 325 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming, in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth-; they that have done good to the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation,"
Page 54 - ... bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.