 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 sivua
...EXERCISES. Write the following sentences, and distinguish the parentheses by means of dashes : — When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some...contemporaries, and make our appearance together. — And Babylon shall become she that was the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans... | |
 | 1844 - 142 sivua
...of the tombs of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, we cannot help considering that great day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance before one awful judge together." To view the whole of the Abbey, enter at Poet's-Corner door, opposite... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 sivua
...parents themselves', I consider the vanity of grieving for those' whom we must quickly follow*: when 1 see kings lying by those who deposed* them ; when...contemporaries', and make our appearance together*. SPECTATOR. 3. THE FOLLY OF MISPENDINO TIME. AN ancient poet, unreasonably discontented at the present*... | |
 | 1846 - 356 sivua
...factions, and debates of mankind; when'I read the several dates of the tombs — of some that died as yesterday, and some six hundred years ago — I consider...day, when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and makeour appearance together. THE SCRIPTURKS. — 'The Bible is older than the fathers, truer than tradition,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 sivua
...past. " When I look," says Addison, " upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me : when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." Such are the reflections which many have felt in wandering through Westminster Abbey, but which none... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1847 - 400 sivua
...astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates on the tombs of some that died yesterday, and some six...contemporaries, and make our appearance together." It seems the natural desire of all men to be remembered after death, and to be commemorated by some... | |
 | John Spence (jr.), Young physician - 1847 - 160 sivua
...several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider the great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together." What an effect will circumstances produce, and how will a combination of these play upon the sensitive... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 sivua
...dates of the tombs — of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago — I consider the great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together ! r3 LESSON LXXIV. TJie American Flag. — JR DRAKE. WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurl'd... | |
 | Nathan Marcus Adler - 1848 - 784 sivua
...astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of tombs, of some that died yesterday and some six hundred...contemporaries and make our appearance together."— Spectator, Vol. I., No. 26.* But I proceed to the larger question. Where are we, as men and Christians,... | |
 | 1849 - 772 sivua
...when he says: " When I read the several dates of the tombs of some that died yesterday, and some 600 years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make out appearance together." monumental erection should be regarded as a piece of vanity. For the accommodation... | |
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When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see... 
