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... says Sir Thomas Browne , referring to Artemisia , Queen of Halicarnassus , who is said to have had the ashes of her husband Mausolus mingled with her beverage . The people near the Ganges lay their dead or dying relatives along the ...
... says Sir Thomas Browne , referring to Artemisia , Queen of Halicarnassus , who is said to have had the ashes of her husband Mausolus mingled with her beverage . The people near the Ganges lay their dead or dying relatives along the ...
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... says Paulinus ( who converted the Northum- brians to Christianity ) was interred . But there are similar ones , evidently sepulchres , in various parts of England . At Chester there is , or was , one to which tradition attaches the name ...
... says Paulinus ( who converted the Northum- brians to Christianity ) was interred . But there are similar ones , evidently sepulchres , in various parts of England . At Chester there is , or was , one to which tradition attaches the name ...
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... says Seneca , ' though I never saw or knew the party when he was alive , I deserve nothing for my so doing , since I do but discharge an obligation which I owe to human nature . ' In an epistle written by the Roman clergy , during the ...
... says Seneca , ' though I never saw or knew the party when he was alive , I deserve nothing for my so doing , since I do but discharge an obligation which I owe to human nature . ' In an epistle written by the Roman clergy , during the ...
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... In the beautiful history of Tobit we are told not merely of his giving many alms to his brethren , ' his ' bread to the hungry , ' and his ' clothes to the naked ; ' but , says he- ' If I saw any of my nation dead , ANCIENT BURIAL . 13.
... In the beautiful history of Tobit we are told not merely of his giving many alms to his brethren , ' his ' bread to the hungry , ' and his ' clothes to the naked ; ' but , says he- ' If I saw any of my nation dead , ANCIENT BURIAL . 13.
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... says a very recent traveller in Sweden , ' a woman run over by a cart . She lay at the side of a street , and no one would raise her up ; for she seemed to be dead , and they do not think it lucky to be the first to touch the body in ...
... says a very recent traveller in Sweden , ' a woman run over by a cart . She lay at the side of a street , and no one would raise her up ; for she seemed to be dead , and they do not think it lucky to be the first to touch the body in ...
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Page 253 - Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return Sicilian Muse, And call the Vales, and bid them hither cast Their Bells, and Flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart Star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 104 - 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 burying-place. (There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife ; and there I buried Leah.) The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth.
Page 241 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand ; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
Page 251 - The eternal regions : Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Page 297 - But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.
Page 104 - 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, and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house : only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
Page 375 - Follow'd thee up to joy and bliss for ever. Love led them on, and Faith, who knew them best Thy handmaids...
Page 43 - Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Page 244 - The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence, who has condescended to call himself the Stranger's Friend.
Page 187 - Tis not because Lord Lindesay's heir To-night at Roslin leads the ball, But that my ladye-mother there Sits lonely in her castle-hall. ' 'Tis not because the ring they ride, And Lindesay at the ring rides well, But that my sire the wine will chide If 'tis not fill'd by Rosabelle.