A general volume of epitaphs, original and selected, and an historical and moral essay on the subject, by a clergyman [B. Richings]. |
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... ! Behold , vain man ! in every tomb , Thine own , unerring , certain doom ; Repent , believe , the hour is near , When thou in dust must moulder here ! 3 . Here sleep the dead - how fast they INTRODUCTORY INSCRIPTIONS.
... ! Behold , vain man ! in every tomb , Thine own , unerring , certain doom ; Repent , believe , the hour is near , When thou in dust must moulder here ! 3 . Here sleep the dead - how fast they INTRODUCTORY INSCRIPTIONS.
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... Thine own fleet moments number . 7 . May God awake thy fears : teach Thee thy days to number , and to apply Thy trembling heart to wisdom . 8 . And dost thou , stranger , come to gaze On sculptured records widely spread ? Or search ...
... Thine own fleet moments number . 7 . May God awake thy fears : teach Thee thy days to number , and to apply Thy trembling heart to wisdom . 8 . And dost thou , stranger , come to gaze On sculptured records widely spread ? Or search ...
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... thine ? - 59 . Why weepest thou ? the fragrant lovely flower Which did but open for a short - lived hour , Hath been transplanted to a better soil , Far from a world of sorrow , sin , and toil . 60 . The child you mourn is now in heaven ...
... thine ? - 59 . Why weepest thou ? the fragrant lovely flower Which did but open for a short - lived hour , Hath been transplanted to a better soil , Far from a world of sorrow , sin , and toil . 60 . The child you mourn is now in heaven ...
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... Thine he is , for ever thine . 63 . Happy infant ! early blest , Rest in peaceful slumbers rest ; Early rescued from the cares , Which increase with growing years . 64 . When time shall reach its final hour , Thou wilt arise , a fairer ...
... Thine he is , for ever thine . 63 . Happy infant ! early blest , Rest in peaceful slumbers rest ; Early rescued from the cares , Which increase with growing years . 64 . When time shall reach its final hour , Thou wilt arise , a fairer ...
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... , Jesus , your everlasting theme . 68 . And hast THOU called me to resign What most I prized ? —it ne'er was mine ; I only yield Thee what was thine . * Or , Children we trace , & c . 69 . Yes , thou art gone , and saints INFANCY . 19.
... , Jesus , your everlasting theme . 68 . And hast THOU called me to resign What most I prized ? —it ne'er was mine ; I only yield Thee what was thine . * Or , Children we trace , & c . 69 . Yes , thou art gone , and saints INFANCY . 19.
Términos y frases comunes
Abner blessed blest bliss breath burial buried called Canaan cave of Machpelah cheer child chre Christ Christian Church Church of England churchyard city of David coffins dark dead death died divine dust early doom earth earthly Egypt Ephrath epitaphs eternal fade faith fathers fear feelings flower friends funeral glory goeth grace grief hath hear heart heaven heavenly Hebron holy hope hour inscriptions Israel Jesus Jews John xix King laid lament life's live look Lord memory mercy mighty to save mortal mourn never Patriarch peace pious praise pray prayer Psalm purgatory realms reign Rephidim rest saints Saviour Saviour's love seek sepulchres shalt sigh sinner skies sleep slumbers soon sorrow spirit stay stone sweet tears TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE thee thine things thou art thought tomb tree trod truth unto voice weep whilst wisdom wise youth
Pasajes populares
Página 81 - As the winged arrow flies Speedily the mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream: Upward, Lord, our spirits raise, All below is but a dream.
Página xiv - Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden ; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day ; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Página xxviii - 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.
Página 151 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Página viii - 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...
Página liv - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Página 19 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Página 147 - 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.
Página 157 - 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,"
Página xxxv - ... 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.