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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... by that harmony with the Scriptures which is essential to religious truth ; and how every book of this kind has disappointed public expectation , the writer cannot but see that he has engaged in a work he could never ex- pect iv PREFACE .
... by that harmony with the Scriptures which is essential to religious truth ; and how every book of this kind has disappointed public expectation , the writer cannot but see that he has engaged in a work he could never ex- pect iv PREFACE .
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... never ex- pect to be perfect . But he could not urge his clerical brethren to the persevering and conscientious discharge of an important duty , without , at least , attempting to give them all the assistance in his power , and he ...
... never ex- pect to be perfect . But he could not urge his clerical brethren to the persevering and conscientious discharge of an important duty , without , at least , attempting to give them all the assistance in his power , and he ...
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... never designed . To his regret , he has read verses expressive of the deepest piety and the most assured hope on the grave - stones of those of whom no favourable opinion or charit- able hope could be entertained . But there is one vast ...
... never designed . To his regret , he has read verses expressive of the deepest piety and the most assured hope on the grave - stones of those of whom no favourable opinion or charit- able hope could be entertained . But there is one vast ...
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... never - ending minstrelsy of the ocean , the same requiem is sung to all . Over their remains the same storm rages , the same sun shines ; and there , unmarked , the weak and the powerful sleep on together , till awakened by that ...
... never - ending minstrelsy of the ocean , the same requiem is sung to all . Over their remains the same storm rages , the same sun shines ; and there , unmarked , the weak and the powerful sleep on together , till awakened by that ...
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... Never does a text of Scripture appear so striking , never is it read with more effect , than when it requires no other comment than the scene of mortality with which it is surrounded . Texts of Scrip- ture have also this superiority ...
... Never does a text of Scripture appear so striking , never is it read with more effect , than when it requires no other comment than the scene of mortality with which it is surrounded . Texts of Scrip- ture have also this superiority ...
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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.