The Life and Letters of Robert Collyer, 1823-1912, Том 2

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Dodd, Mead, 1917

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Стр. 158 - Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire ; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Стр. 380 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Стр. 158 - BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations, bow with sacred joy : Know that the Lord is God alone ; lie can create, and he destroy.
Стр. 248 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference.
Стр. 16 - For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
Стр. 347 - ... of scientific inquiry and of the passion for truth-seeking. Hence the changes in religious beliefs and practices, and in the relation of churches to human society as a whole, were much deeper and more extensive in that century than ever before in the history of the world...
Стр. 231 - How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As tho
Стр. 47 - Englishman too, and my mother an Englishwoman — that, so far as I can trace my descent back and back, and that is just as far as my grandfather, we are all English, every one of us. Well, there is not a day when I stand on the lake shore, that I do not see the moors that were lifted up about my old habitation, and a little stone cottage nestling in among the greenery, and the glancing waters, and the lift of the lark with his song up into heaven, until you cannot see him, and a hundred other things...
Стр. 348 - My point of view is that of an American layman, whose observing and thinking life has covered the extraordinary period since the Voyage of the Beagle was published, anaesthesia and the telegraph came into use, Herbert Spencer issued his first series of papers on evolution, Kuenen, Robertson Smith, and Wellhausen developed and vindicated Biblical criticism, JS Mill's Principles of Political Economy...
Стр. 17 - ... be impossible to relate here a tithe of the Herculean services performed by him. His devotion to the soldiers of the Union — his tenderness to all sufferers, whether Federals or Confederates — were such as have consecrated his name in every part of the country. Hundreds — if not thousands — breathed their last in his arms, and confided to him their last messages of love, and many are they who owe their lives to his sleepless care. When the conflict was over, and the dead of Chicago had...

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