God's Acre; Or, Historical Notices Relating to ChurchyardsJ.W. Parker and Son, 1858 - 406 ページ |
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... referred to may probably have been the origin of the superstition prevalent in many places to this day , that it is ' unlucky ' to touch a corpse . ' I saw , ' says a very recent traveller in Sweden , ' a woman run over by a cart . She ...
... referred to may probably have been the origin of the superstition prevalent in many places to this day , that it is ' unlucky ' to touch a corpse . ' I saw , ' says a very recent traveller in Sweden , ' a woman run over by a cart . She ...
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... referred to the difficulty of the great , rich , and prosperous of this world , recognising death as only the advent of a happier life ; of their meet- ing death as a friend , a liberator ; of looking on the dark valley merely as a ...
... referred to the difficulty of the great , rich , and prosperous of this world , recognising death as only the advent of a happier life ; of their meet- ing death as a friend , a liberator ; of looking on the dark valley merely as a ...
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... referred , their pagan foes exhibited by exposing the bodies of the Christian martyrs to beasts and birds of prey , in utter scorn of the newly - taught doctrines of Redemption and Resurrection . Sometimes , after re- taining the bodies ...
... referred , their pagan foes exhibited by exposing the bodies of the Christian martyrs to beasts and birds of prey , in utter scorn of the newly - taught doctrines of Redemption and Resurrection . Sometimes , after re- taining the bodies ...
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... referred more fully in chap . xvi . For the first five hundred years of the Christian era the old practice of extra - mural interment was , as we have remarked , most generally followed ; only royal personages were allowed to be buried ...
... referred more fully in chap . xvi . For the first five hundred years of the Christian era the old practice of extra - mural interment was , as we have remarked , most generally followed ; only royal personages were allowed to be buried ...
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... ( referred to above ) ran thus : - ' And we enjoin that no man be buried within a church , unless it be known that he in life was so acceptable to God , that , on that account , it be ad- mitted that he is worthy of such a grave . ' 1 By ...
... ( referred to above ) ran thus : - ' And we enjoin that no man be buried within a church , unless it be known that he in life was so acceptable to God , that , on that account , it be ad- mitted that he is worthy of such a grave . ' 1 By ...
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253 ページ - 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.
104 ページ - 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.
241 ページ - 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.
251 ページ - 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...
297 ページ - But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.
104 ページ - 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.
375 ページ - Follow'd thee up to joy and bliss for ever. Love led them on, and Faith, who knew them best Thy handmaids...
43 ページ - 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.
244 ページ - 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.
187 ページ - 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.