| Helen Maria Williams - 1796 - 472 pages
...with a few figns of life yet remaining : they placed him on the bed, where he inftantly expired. " The chamber where the good man meets his fate* " Is privileged beyond the common walks <r Of virtuous life." The prefent was a fanctuary too facred for municipal officers or Pruflians,... | |
| 700 pages
...servant depart in fieace; or, with the confidence of expiring Stephen, Lord Jesus! receive my spirit. The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common wslk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heav'n. Fly, ye profane! If not, draw near with awe; Receive... | |
| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1801 - 674 pages
...expiring Stephen, Lord Jesus! receive mysfiirit. The chamber where the good man meets his fate, It privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of Heav'u. Wy, ye profane! If not, draw near with awe; Receive the blessing and adore the chance That... | |
| 1808 - 614 pages
...trust, «'ill ne\er be erased from my mind, forcibly brought to my recollection those lines in Dr. Young. "The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyund the common walk Of virtuous life, quite on the verge of heaven," Sec. When I asked him bow he... | |
| Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...Is it his death-bed ? No ; it is his shrine : Behold him, there, just rising to a god. .! •,. ..". The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is...common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. Fly, ye profane ! If not, draw near with awe,. Receive the blessing, and adore the chance,... | |
| 1854 - 834 pages
...decay was gradual, and his debility general. So cheerful and happy was he, that it might be said — " The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is privileged beyond the common walk Of viituous life, quite on the verge of heaven ! " He was one day visited by the late Mr. EL Cope, who,... | |
| 1843 - 752 pages
...piety of the dear sufferer, rather than upon that which then was so distressing. ' The chamber wlicro the good man meets his fate Is privileged beyond the common walk of life, Quito on the verge of heaven T "* Amidst bodily sufferings, sufficient to appal the stoutest... | |
| 1817 - 780 pages
...repose, and closed his eyes for ever on this world. " The rljambvr where the good man meet* his fate, I> privileged beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of hcavcu." Such were the interesting, awful tcenes, Mii-it the sad train of cnncomitant circumstances,... | |
| 1818 - 590 pages
...sigh, — sunk into a state of sweet and gentle repose, and closed his eyes for ever on this world. ' The chamber where the good man meets his fate, Is...common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.' " Such were the interestii^ awful scenes, such the sad train of concomitant circumstances,... | |
| 1818 - 486 pages
...— sunk into a state of sweet and gentle repose, and closed his eyes for ever on this world. '• The chamber where the good man meets his fate, : Is...common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.' " Such were the interesting awful scenes, such the sad train of concomitant circumstances,... | |
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