Churchyard Literature: A Choice Collection of American Epitaphs, with Remarks on Monumental Inscriptions and the Obsequies of Various NationsS.C. Griggs, 1877 - 213 strani |
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Churchyard Literature: A Choice Collection of American Epitaphs John Robert Kippax Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1969 |
Churchyard Literature: A Choice Collection of American Epitaphs, with ... John Robert Kippax Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1978 |
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aged ancient angels ANTHONY WAYNE bearing this inscription bears the following beautiful behold beloved Beneath this stone blest bones born Boston burying-ground Calvary Cemetery Canada Chicago Christ Christian church churchyard Conn Connecticut dead dear death departed Dorchester dust earth ELEAZAR WHEELOCK Elihu Yale Elizabeth embalmed epitaph erected this monument eternal faith father feet flowers friends gone grave gravestone graveyard heart heaven honor hope HUGH MERCER husband immortal inscribed interred ISAAC BROCK Island Jesus JOHN COGGESHALL JOSEPH JOSEPH BRANT July lamented lies the body little Jerry lived Lord marble March Mary Mass Memento mori memory of John mortal mother mounds NANNESTAD native October Philadelphia remembrance rest resurrection Rose Hill Cemetery Sacred SAMUEL Sarah sarcophagus sleep sorrow soul stanza sweet tablet tear tender thee THOMAS tomb tombstone tribute tumulus virtues Weep wife WILLIAM CODDINGTON York youth
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Stran 21 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Stran 61 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Stran 75 - As you are now, so once was I. As I am now so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me.
Stran 40 - Philosophical argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison -with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me ; but my heart has always assured and reassured me, that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality.' " ' The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. " ' The whole history of man proves it.
Stran 41 - Sacred Honor To the INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTRY. On the third of September, 1783, He affixed his Seal to the definitive Treaty with Great Britain, Which acknowledged that Independence, And consummated the redemption of his pledge. On the fourth of July, 1826, He was summoned To the Independence of Immortality, And to the JUDGMENT OF HIS GOD.
Stran 135 - It is appointed unto men once to die, and after death the judgment.
Stran 40 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Stran 106 - God wills us free; man wills us slaves. I will as God wills: God's will be done. Here lies the body of JOHN JACK, a native of Africa, who died, March, 1773, aged about 60 years.
Stran 52 - Trinity church has erected this monument in testimony of their respect for the patriot of incorruptible integrity, the soldier of approved valor, the statesman of consummate wisdom, whose talents and virtues will be admired by grateful posterity long after this marble shall have mouldered into dust.
Stran 90 - EPITAPH ON AN INFANT. ERE Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care ; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed And bade it blossom there.