The Human Body and Its Connection with Man: Illustrated by the Principal OrgansLippincott, Grambo and Company, 1851 - 411 pages |
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Page 376 - To Mercy Pity Peace and Love, All pray in their distress: And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love, Is God our father dear: And Mercy Pity Peace and Love, Is Man his child and care. For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: 10 And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
Page 375 - Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother: For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides.
Page 13 - Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Page 375 - More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of. In every path, • He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. Oh mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.
Page iii - And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Page 337 - All flesh is not the same flesh ; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Page 12 - And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them : and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
Page 376 - To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is God, our father dear; And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is Man, his child and care. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face; And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
Page 169 - Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart, if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee .... if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee...
Page 321 - There it is that love puts on its celestial rosy red ; there lovely shame blushes and mean shame looks earthy ; there hatred contracts its wicked white ; there jealousy picks from its own drawer its bodice of settled green ; there anger clothes itself in black, and despair in the grayness of the dead ; there hypocrisy plunders the rest, and takes all their dresses by turns ; sorrow and penitence, too, have sackcloth there ; and genius and inspiration, in immortal hours, encinctured there with the...