Punctuation, and Other Typographical Matters: For the Use of Printers, Authors, Teachers, and ScholarsLee and Shepard, 1895 - 112 pages |
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Page 12 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Page 28 - Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah: They shall not lament for him, saying, "Ah my brother!" or, "Ah sister!" they shall not lament for him, saying, "Ah lord!" or, "Ah his glory!" He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Page 27 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 42 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page 21 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon; you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse ; the loud call to repeated assault ; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death — all these you have witnessed, but you witness them no more. All is...
Page 16 - Philosophers assert, that nature is unlimited in her operations ; that she has inexhaustible treasures in reserve ; that knowledge will always be progressive ; and that all future generations will continue to make discoveries, of which we have not the least idea.
Page 26 - What is civilization ? Where is it ? What does it consist in ? By what is it excluded ? Where does it commence ? Where does it end ? By what sign is it known? How is it defined? In short, what does it mean?
Page 42 - They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care ; And saints upon their garments white These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 33 - Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
Page 33 - Till darken'd reason lay quite clouded o'er With soft conceit of endless comfort here, Nor yet put forth her wings to reach the skies ! Night-visions may befriend, as sung above : Our waking dreams are fatal : how I dreamt Of things impossible ! could sleep do more ? Of joys perpetual in perpetual change...