Opuscula. Seria Ac Jocosa: Found in the Scrutoir of an Ultra Octogenarian, 1. köide

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Page 5 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 8 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Page 15 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Page 3 - Virtus, the Genius of the Commonwealth, dressed like an Amazon, resting on a spear with one hand, and holding a sword in the other, and treading on Tyranny, represented by a man prostrate, a crown fallen from his head, a broken chain in his left hand, and a scourge in his right. " 'In the exergon, the word Virginia over the head of Virtus ; and underneath the words Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Page 3 - This seal portrays Virtus, the genius of the Commonwealth, dressed like an Amazon, resting on a scale at one hand and holding a sword in the other, treading on Tyranny, represented by a man prostrate, a crown fallen from his head, a broken chain in his left hand, and a scourge in his right. In the exergue the word "Virginia" appears over the head of Virtus, and underneath the words "Sic semper tyrannis
Page 27 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest I will go; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God.
Page 3 - State convention of 1861 passed an ordinance providing that "the flag of the Commonwealth shall hereafter be made of bunting, which shall be a deep blue field, with a circle of white in the center, upon which shall be painted or embroidered, to show on both sides alike, the coat-of-arms of the State as described by the convention of 1776, for one side (obverse) of the seal of the State.
Page 5 - Ferdinand' Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Page 5 - Fellow citizens," said he, " you here have known well the statesmen and orators of some of the Southern States. We have known their courage, and the courage, the spirit and the resolution of the people of all the Southern States. But knowing all these, we know two things which even they cannot do — one is to destroy ' Hail Columbia,' and the other is to destroy the Star Spangled Banner. They will fail to do it only because human nature needs that the one shall continue to be so, and that the other...
Page 6 - LOVED the Representatives of other sections MORE THAN NOW. " * * The people of the North are not enemies, but FRIENDS OP THE SOUTH, FAITHFUL AXD TRUE.

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