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... practice . It would be worse than affectation to deny , that his particu- lar object has been to further the ... practices — or to attempt to dissipate prejudices - he trusts that he has executed the task without the manifestation of ...
... practice . It would be worse than affectation to deny , that his particu- lar object has been to further the ... practices — or to attempt to dissipate prejudices - he trusts that he has executed the task without the manifestation of ...
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... practice of burning might obtain in countries infested with wild beasts , as a preventive against their ravenous attacks , when driven by hunger from their native mountains and forests . * * It is somewhat remarkable , that islanders ...
... practice of burning might obtain in countries infested with wild beasts , as a preventive against their ravenous attacks , when driven by hunger from their native mountains and forests . * * It is somewhat remarkable , that islanders ...
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... practice of burning , was the superstition of the Persians and other nations , who being idolaters of the Sun and Fire , would discard it as sacrilegious , and adopt the custom of inhumation . * wait for their natural death , when in an ...
... practice of burning , was the superstition of the Persians and other nations , who being idolaters of the Sun and Fire , would discard it as sacrilegious , and adopt the custom of inhumation . * wait for their natural death , when in an ...
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... practice of interment more accordant with their religious opinions , and committing " earth to earth , dust to dust , ashes to ashes , " would thus restore their bodies to the common mother from whence they had sprung , in sure and ...
... practice of interment more accordant with their religious opinions , and committing " earth to earth , dust to dust , ashes to ashes , " would thus restore their bodies to the common mother from whence they had sprung , in sure and ...
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... practice of burning was also of a great antiquity and of no slender extent . For ( not to derive the same from Hercules ) noble descriptions there are hereof in the Grecian funerals of Homer , in the formal obsequies of Patroclus , and ...
... practice of burning was also of a great antiquity and of no slender extent . For ( not to derive the same from Hercules ) noble descriptions there are hereof in the Grecian funerals of Homer , in the formal obsequies of Patroclus , and ...
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Abney Park Cemetery Act of Parliament alba ancient appearance ashes Asia beautiful Bishop body bones burial buried burning burnt catacombs catkins ceme chapel Christians church churchyards clergy coffin colour common consecrated corpse cramoisi dead death Decandria deciduous derived earth Episcopal consecration erected evergreen fees flowers friends fruit funeral gardens genus GEORGE COLLISON grave Greek ground growing Gunston height Highgate Cemetery holy honour interment ISAAC WATTS Kensal Green L. S. Icosandria L. S. Monacia leaves Leguminosa living London ment mignon Monadelphia Montmagny monuments N. O. Rosacea native of North natives of Europe nature North America north of Africa ornamental parish pendula Père la Chaise planted pleno Polyandria pourpre propagated provence purposes rites Roman Rosacea rouge rubra sacred seeds semi-double sepulchral sepulture shrubs Sibirica soil solemn soul species stone tery tion tomb trees unto urns variegatis vaults walls Watts wood yellow
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Página 117 - Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? On some fond breast the parting soul relies, Some pious drops the closing eye requires; E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th...
Página 118 - Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife : there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Página 66 - Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of pre-ordination, and night of their fore-beings. And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, extasis, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the Spouse, gustation of God, and ingression into the divine shadow, they have already had an handsome anticipation of heaven; the glory of the world...
Página 311 - That, from the inmost darkness of the place, Comes, scarcely felt; — the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh, moist ground, are all instinct with thee.
Página 302 - THE peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord : And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always.
Página 60 - To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets, or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries who we were, and have new names given us, like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.
Página 65 - Some graves will be opened before they be quite closed, and Lazarus be no wonder. When many that feared to die, shall groan that they can die but once...
Página 57 - ... unto them ; whereas they weariedly left a languishing corpse, and with faint desires of reunion. If they fell by long and aged decay, yet wrapt up in the bundle of time, they fall into indistinction, and make but one blot with infants. If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition ; we live with death, and die not in a moment.
Página 62 - Pagans could doubt whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets at right descensions and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes; since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementos and time that grows old in itself bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
Página 116 - For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?