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Evangeline. Part i. 3.
And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
Evangeline. Part ii. 5.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.[616-1]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Into a world unknown,--the corner-stone of a nation![616-2]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.[616-3]
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
The Herons of Elmwood.
He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.[616-4]
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[811:1] Buffon: Discours de Réception (Recueil de l'Académie, 1753). See Burton, page 186.
[811:2] Proclus: Commentary on Euclid's Elements, book ii. chap. iv.
[811:3] Attributed to Mademoiselle Bertin, milliner to Marie Antoinette.
"There is nothing new except that which has become antiquated,"—motto of the "Revue Rétrospective."
[811:4] This saying is attributed to Talleyrand. In a letter of the Chevalier de Panat to Mallet du Pan, January, 1796, it occurs almost literally,—"No one is right; no one could forget anything, nor learn anything."
[811:5] Words uttered by Comte de Salvandy (1796-1856) at a fete given by the Duke of Orleans to the King of Naples, 1830.
[811:6] Attributed to Luther, but more probably a saying of J. H. Voss (1751-1826), according to Redlich, "Die poetischen Beiträge zum Waudsbecker Bothen," Hamburg, 1871, p. 67.—King: Classical and Foreign Quotations (1887).
[811:7] See Gibbon, page 430.
Napoleon said, "Providence is always on the side of the last reserve."
[811:8] Anonymous translation from "Tait's Magazine," July, 1850. The poem is of an age earlier than that of Mahomet.
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THE BIBLE. OLD TESTAMENT.And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Genesis i. 3.
It is not good that the man should be alone.
Genesis ii. 18.
Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
Genesis ii. 23.
They sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Genesis iii. 7.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
Genesis iii. 19.
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis iii. 19.
The mother of all living.
Genesis iii. 20.
Am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis iv. 9.
My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis iv. 13.
There were giants in the earth in those days.
Genesis vi. 4.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis vii. 12.
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
Genesis viii. 9.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
Genesis ix. 6.
Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me.
Genesis xiii. 8.
In a good old age.
Genesis xv. 15.
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
Genesis xvi. 12.
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Old and well stricken in age.
Genesis xviii. 11.
His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis xix. 26.
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Genesis xxvii. 22.
They stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours.
Genesis xxxvii. 23.
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis xlii. 38.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
Genesis xlix. 4.
I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Exodus ii. 22.
A land flowing with milk and honey.
Exodus iii. 8; Jeremiah xxxii. 22.
Darkness which may be felt.
Exodus x. 21.
The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.
Exodus xiii. 21.
When we sat by the fleshpots.
Exodus xvi. 3.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Leviticus xix. 18.
The Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
Numbers xxii. 28.
Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
Numbers xxiii. 10.
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
Numbers xxiv. 5.
Man doth not live by bread only.
Deuteronomy viii. 3.
The wife of thy bosom.
Deuteronomy xiii. 6.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy xix. 21.
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Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Deuteronomy xxviii. 5.
The secret things belong unto the Lord.
Deuteronomy xxix. 29.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy xxxii. 10.
Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.
Deuteronomy xxxii. 15.
As thy days, so shall thy strength be.
Deuteronomy xxxiii. 25.
His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Deuteronomy xxxiv. 7.
I am going the way of all the earth.
Joshua xxiii. 14.
I arose a mother in Israel.
Judges v. 7.
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
Judges v. 20.
She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Judges v. 25.
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Judges v. 27.
Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?
Judges viii. 2.
He smote them hip and thigh.
Judges xv. 8.
The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.
Judges xvi. 9.
From Dan even to Beer-sheba.
Judges xx. 1.
The people arose as one man.
Judges xx. 8.
Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
Ruth i. 16.
Quit yourselves like men.
1 Samuel iv. 9.
Is Saul also among the prophets?
1 Samuel x. 11.
A man after his own heart.
1 Samuel xiii. 14.
David therefore departed thence and escaped to the cave Adullam.
1 Samuel xxii. 1.
Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askelon.
2 Samuel i. 20.
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Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
2 Samuel i. 23.
How are the mighty fallen!
2 Samuel i. 25.
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2 Samuel i. 26.
Abner . . . smote him under the fifth rib.
2 Samuel ii. 23.
Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown.
2 Samuel x. 5.
Thou art the man.
2 Samuel xii. 7.
As water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
2 Samuel xiv. 14.
They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
2 Samuel xx. 18.
The sweet psalmist of Israel.
2 Samuel xxiii. 1.
So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.[815:1]
1 Kings vi. 7.
A proverb and a byword.
1 Kings ix. 7.
I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
1 Kings xvii. 9.
An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.
1 Kings xvii. 12.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.
1 Kings xvii. 16.
How long halt ye between two opinions?
1 Kings xviii. 21.
There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
1 Kings xviii. 44.
A still, small voice.
1 Kings xix. 12.
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Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
1 Kings xx. 11.
Death in the pot.
2 Kings iv. 40.
Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
2 Kings viii. 13.
Like the driving of Jehu, the son of Nimshi: for he driveth furiously.
2 Kings ix. 20.
One that feared God and eschewed evil.
Job i. 1.
Satan came also.
Job i. 6.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job i. 21.
All that a man hath will he give for his life.
Job ii. 4.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
Job iii. 17.
Night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
Job iv. 13; xxxiii. 15.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job v. 7.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Job v. 13.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job v. 26.
How forcible are right words!
Job vi. 25.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.
Job vii. 6.
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.[816:1]
Job vii. 10; cf. xvi. 22.
I would not live alway.
Job vii. 16.
The land of darkness and the shadow of death.
Job x. 21.
Clearer than the noonday.
Job xi. 17.
Wisdom shall die with you.
Job xii. 2.
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Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.
Job xii. 8.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job xvi. 1.
Miserable comforters are ye all.
Job xvi. 2.
The king of terrors.
Job xviii. 14.
I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job xix. 20.
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Job xix. 23.
Seeing the root of the matter is found in me.
Job xix. 28.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue.
Job xx. 12.
The land of the living.
Job xxviii. 13.
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
Job xxviii. 18.
When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me.
Job xxix. 11.
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Job xxix. 13.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job xxix. 15.
The house appointed for all living.
Job xxx. 23.
My desire is . . . that mine adversary had written a book.
Job xxxi. 35.
Great men are not always wise.
Job xxxii. 9.
He multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job xxxv. 16.
Fair weather cometh out of the north.
Job xxxvii. 22.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job xxxviii. 2.
The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
Job xxxviii. 7.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Job xxxviii. 11.
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Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
Job xxxviii. 31.
Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Job xxxviii. 32.
He smelleth the battle afar off.
Job xxxix. 25.
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
Job xli. 1.
Hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Job xli. 24.
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.
Job xli. 31.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth thee.
Job xlii. 5.
His leaf also shall not
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