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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... blest , who , sick of gaudy scenes , Is led , by choice , to take his fav'rite walk , Beneath death's gloomy , silent , cypress shade , Unpierced by vanity's fantastic ray : To read his monuments , —to weigh his dust , — Visit his ...
... blest , who , sick of gaudy scenes , Is led , by choice , to take his fav'rite walk , Beneath death's gloomy , silent , cypress shade , Unpierced by vanity's fantastic ray : To read his monuments , —to weigh his dust , — Visit his ...
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... blest . " 17 . Why all this toil , for triumphs of an hour ? - What though men wade in wealth , or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in , " Here he lies , " And " Dust to dust " concludes her noblest song . 18 . What avail ...
... blest . " 17 . Why all this toil , for triumphs of an hour ? - What though men wade in wealth , or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in , " Here he lies , " And " Dust to dust " concludes her noblest song . 18 . What avail ...
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... blest . 28 . And dost thou , reader , wand'ring forth alone , Require to know for whom was raised this stone ? This stone was here in friendship raised for thee , Raised to remind thee of ETERNITY ! 29 . All , all on earth is shadow ...
... blest . 28 . And dost thou , reader , wand'ring forth alone , Require to know for whom was raised this stone ? This stone was here in friendship raised for thee , Raised to remind thee of ETERNITY ! 29 . All , all on earth is shadow ...
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... blest . 38 . Here an infant lies asleep ; Who can o'er its slumbers weep ? Now from sin for ever free , Now for ever , Lord , with thee . 39 . How soon , how very soon , the flowers of life decay , How soon all earthly beauty fades away ...
... blest . 38 . Here an infant lies asleep ; Who can o'er its slumbers weep ? Now from sin for ever free , Now for ever , Lord , with thee . 39 . How soon , how very soon , the flowers of life decay , How soon all earthly beauty fades away ...
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... Blest is their lot - from sin and sorrow free , - Lord , they are thine , and now they live with THEE . 46 . This child that moulders in the tomb , So beautiful from birth ; It seemed as if she came to bloom , A lovely flower on earth ...
... Blest is their lot - from sin and sorrow free , - Lord , they are thine , and now they live with THEE . 46 . This child that moulders in the tomb , So beautiful from birth ; It seemed as if she came to bloom , A lovely flower on earth ...
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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.