The Asiatic Quarterly Review, Volumes 9-10Swan Sonnenshein & Company, 1890 |
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Page 334 - If a man die, shall he live again ? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Page 333 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 209 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Page 208 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 213 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 13 - The Wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of The Spirit.
Page 58 - Denmark, is represented as an insult which it was beyond the bounds of his imperial majesty's moderation to endure. His majesty feels himself under no obligation to offer any atonement or apology to the emperor of Russia for the expedition against Copenhagen. It "is not for those who were parties to the secret arrangements of Tilsit, to demand satisfaction for a measure to which those arrangements gave rise, and by which one of the objects of them has been happily defeated.
Page 334 - And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, And the rock is removed out of his place.
Page 211 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 214 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.