 | 1850 - 638 pages
...sinew, and that our bodies, animated by the warmth and vigor of life, shall again connect our soils to the matter existing around us, and be obedient...not enlighten the recesses that yawn around us. And, O! what more unworthy of reasonable men than to reject so consoling a revelation on no juster quarrel... | |
 | 1850 - 652 pages
...extended to even our Tery remains ; that our very bones, instead of being left, like the exuviffi nround us, to form the rocks and clays of a future world,...men than to reject so consoling a revelation on no j uster quarrel, than that when it unveils to us much of what could not otherwise be known, and without... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 324 pages
...amid 'the dark Cemeteries of a departed world, and see the cold blank shadows of thelombs'.falling drearily athwart the way— it is surely no time to...enlighten the recesses that .yawn around us. And, 0, what more unworthy of reasonable men than to reject, so consoling a revelation, on no juster quarrel... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 378 pages
...the dark cemeteries of a departed world, and see the cold blank shadows of the tombs falling drcarly athwart the way — it is surely no time to extinguish...not enlighten the recesses that yawn around us. And O, what more unworthy of reasonable men than to reject so consoling a revelation on no juster quarrel,... | |
 | PETER BAYNE - 1871 - 512 pages
...anticipate a similar fate for ourselves ! As individuals we are but of yesterday ; to-morrow we shall be in our graves, and the tread of the coming generation...around us. And oh, what more unworthy of reasonable man than to reject so consoling a revelation on no j aster quarrel than that, when it unveils to us... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1871 - 512 pages
...vision, be again clothed with muscle and sinew; and that our bodies, animated by the warmth and vigor of life, shall again connect our souls to the matter...around us. And oh, what more unworthy of reasonable man than to reject so consoling a revelation on no juster quarrel than that, when it unveils to us... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1871 - 524 pages
...clothed with muscle and sinew; and that our bodies, animated by the warmth and vigour of life, shah1 again connect our souls to the matter existing around...around us. And oh, what more unworthy of reasonable man than to reject so consoling a revelation on no juster quarrel than that, when it unveils to us... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1871 - 528 pages
...departed world, and see the cold blank shadows of the tombs falling drearily athwart the way,—it is surely no time to extinguish the light given us...around us. And oh, what more unworthy of reasonable man than to reject so consoling a revelation on no juster quarrel than that, when it unveils to us... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1871 - 616 pages
...see the cold blank shadows of the tombs falling drearily athwart the way, — it is surely no tune to extinguish the light given us to shine so fully...around us. And oh, what more unworthy of reasonable man than to reject so consoling a revelation on no juster quarrel than that, when it unveils to us... | |
 | Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz - 1872 - 436 pages
...athwart the way, — it is surely no tune to extinguish the light given us to shine so fully and BO cheerfully on our own proper path, merely because...not enlighten the recesses that yawn around us. And 0, what more unworthy of reasonable men than to reject so consoling a revelation on no juster quarrel... | |
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... of life, shall again connect our souls to the matter existing around us, and be obedient to every impulse of the will. It is surely no time, when we walk amid the dark cemeteries of a departed world, and see the cold blank shadows of the tombs falling... 