 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1838 - 862 pages
...descended slowly but silently ; and just as the coffin disappeared from view, the dean having said, " We commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust," the porter of the college threw some sand upon it from a bag of sand which he had brought... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 640 pages
...round the grave of Hopkins, as in a distant corner of the church-yard there was committed "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life." If this simple narrative makes the impression I desire on those... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1839 - 1018 pages
...hath pleased Almighty (iodof his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother nere departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground;...to a-shes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jems Christ." With such flippancy, and "the gift... | |
 | 1839 - 40 pages
...22. Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. 23. Now I would not have ye unmindful,... | |
 | Scottish literature - 1839 - 392 pages
...the coffin, as it was lowered into the vault, and his friend pronounced the awful words—" earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ,"—that a quiver of his lip and... | |
 | Highland inn - 1839 - 728 pages
...coffin, as it was lowered into the vault, and his friend pronounced the awful words — " earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ," — that a quiver of his lip and... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 554 pages
...Min. "Fomsmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit...earth to earth; ashes to ashes ; dust to dust : in the sure and certain hope nf the resurrection to eternal llfe, through our Lord Jesus Christ." Stmng.... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - English poetry - 1840 - 552 pages
...Min. "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit...to the ground: earth to earth; ashes to ashes; dust lo dust: in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ."... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...: " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to oartli, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope," &c. Every one, I am sure, who has... | |
 | Daniel Isaac, John Burdsall - 1840 - 548 pages
...it. " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, in sure and certain hope." Though many pious clergymen have complained of this office, and though several... | |
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FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust... 
