Miscellaneous Notes and Queries, Volumes 9-10S. C. & L. M. Gould, 1892 |
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Page 208 - The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
Page 96 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page 143 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
Page 334 - One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Page 263 - Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 22 - Weeping at the feet and head, I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers; Yet I smile and whisper this, — "I am not the thing you kiss; Cease your tears, and let it lie; It was mine, it is not I.
Page 334 - And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
Page 97 - I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Page 22 - Tis an empty sea-shell — one Out of which the pearl has gone; The shell is broken — it lies there, The pearl, the all, the soul, is here 'Tis an earthen jar, whose lid Allah sealed, the while it hid That treasure of his treasury, A mind that loved him: let it lie! Let the shard be earth's once more, Since the gold shines in His store!
Page 22 - tis true, By such light as shines for you ; But in the light ye cannot see Of unfulfilled felicity, In enlarging Paradise, Lives a life that never dies. Farewell, friends ! Yet not farewell ; Where I am, ye too shall dwell. I am gone before your face, A moment's time, a little space. When ye come where I have stepped Ye will wonder why ye wept ; Ye will know, by wise love taught, That here is all, and there is naught.