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War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Line 178.

Thou,

Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven

To bleed for Man, to teach him how to live,
And oh! still harder lesson, how to die! *

Lines 316-319.

"There taught us how to live, and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die." Tickell's Lines on the Death of Addison.

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Scriptural Quotations.

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GENESIS.

In the sweat of thy face † shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto

return.‡

dust shalt thou

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Am I my brother's keeper?

The facility afforded for references to the Holy Scriptures through the various Concordances, renders it unnecessary to insert here more than a few of the most salient passages. Did not these facilities exist, a volume such as this might easily be compiled consisting solely of quotations constantly in use, from the Old and New Testaments.

Not in the sweat of thy brow, as it is ofttimes

quoted.

† Man shall turn again into dust.

Job chap. xxxiv. Verse 15.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his
Chap. IX. Verse 6.

blood be shed.

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A land flowing, with milk and honey.*

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* See also Exodus iii. 17; xiii. 5; xxxiii. 3. Jeremiah

xi. 5; xxxii. 22. Ezekiel xx. 6, 15.

He kept him as the apple of his eye.

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The Lord hath sought him a man after his own

heart.

Chap. XIII.

II. SAMUEL.

Verse 14.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of

Askelon.

Chap. 1. Verse 20.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.

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* "Quit you like men, be strong."xvi. 13.

-I CORINTHIANS

Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of

women,

Chap. 1.

I. KINGS.

Verse 26.

Israel shall be a proverb and a by-word among all

people.

Chap. ix.

Verse 7.

My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.*

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Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this

bruised reed.

Chap. XVIII.

Verse 21.

* See also 2 Chronicles x. 11-14.

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