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... unto old things and consideration of times before you , when even living men were antiquities ; when the living might exceed the dead , and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number . And so run up ...
... unto old things and consideration of times before you , when even living men were antiquities ; when the living might exceed the dead , and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number . And so run up ...
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... unto fire , who burnt themselves alive , and thought it the noblest way to end their days in fire ; according to the expression of the Indian , burning himself at Athens , * in his last words upon the pyre unto the amazed spectators ...
... unto fire , who burnt themselves alive , and thought it the noblest way to end their days in fire ; according to the expression of the Indian , burning himself at Athens , * in his last words upon the pyre unto the amazed spectators ...
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... unto the sentence of God , to return not unto ashes but unto dust again , conformable unto the practice of the patriarchs , the interment of our Saviour , of Peter , Paul , and the ancient martyrs . And so far at last declining ...
... unto the sentence of God , to return not unto ashes but unto dust again , conformable unto the practice of the patriarchs , the interment of our Saviour , of Peter , Paul , and the ancient martyrs . And so far at last declining ...
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... unto the Roman practice of burning ; whereby the prophecy was secured concerning the body of Christ , that it should not see corruption , or a bone should not be broken ; which we believe was also providentially prevented , from the ...
... unto the Roman practice of burning ; whereby the prophecy was secured concerning the body of Christ , that it should not see corruption , or a bone should not be broken ; which we believe was also providentially prevented , from the ...
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... unto the gods and heroes above it . That these were the urns of Romans from the common custom and place where they ... unto the Iceni , by the Roman lieutenant Ostorius . Not long after , the country was so molested , that , in hope of a ...
... unto the gods and heroes above it . That these were the urns of Romans from the common custom and place where they ... unto the Iceni , by the Roman lieutenant Ostorius . Not long after , the country was so molested , that , in hope of a ...
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Page 178 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 172 - Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen ; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Page 152 - I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together...
Page 549 - SHARPE (S.) The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs, AD 640.
Page 45 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 43 - Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle J must conclude and shut up all There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 45 - ... daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration, diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Page 48 - Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of pre-ordination, and night of their fore-beings. And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world...
Page 42 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. What time the persons of these ossuaries entered the famous nations of the dead, and slept with princes and counsellors, might admit a wide solution. But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism ; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial...
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