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" The ashes of an oak in the chimney, are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell. The dust of great persons... "
Solomon's Little People: A Story about the Ants - Page 188
by James Crowther - 1882 - 189 pages
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Holy thoughts on holy things, selected and arranged by E. Davies

Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...in the chimney are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high 'or how large that was. It tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what...distinguishes nothing. As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldst not, as of a prince whom thou couldst not, look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow...
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Great Thoughts from Latin Authors

Craufurd Tait Ramage - Quotations, Latin - 1884 - 694 pages
...an oak in a chimney are no epitaph of that, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what...distinguishes nothing. As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldst not, as of a prince whom thou couldst not look upon, will trouble thine eyes, if the wind blow...
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Great thoughts from Latin authors, by C.T. Ramage

Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 pages
...an oak in a chimney are no epitaph of that, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what...distinguishes nothing. As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldst not, as of a prince whom thou couldst not look upon, will trouble thine eyes, if the wind blow...
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Six thousand illustrations of moral and religious truths

Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pages
...that, to tell me how high, or how large, that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered whilst it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell. The dust of great men's graves is speechless too ; it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing. As soon the dust of a wretch...
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Christian dogmatics (concluded)

Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - Homiletical illustrations - 1889 - 528 pages
...an oak in a chimney are no epitaph of that, to tell me how high or how large that was ; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what...distinguishes nothing. As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldst not, as of a prince whom thou couldst not look upon, will trouble thine eyes, if the wind blow...
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The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary on the Old Testament: Numbers ...

Bible - 1892 - 812 pages
...chimney are no epitaph of that, to tell me lio.v high, or how large that was; it tella me not what flocka it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt...speechless too ; it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing. Aa soon the dust of a wretch whom thon woulde. t not, as of a prince whom thou oouldest not loot upon,...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopędia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...an oak in a chimney are no epitaph of that, to tell me how high or how large that was ; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what...speechless too ; it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing. — Donne. Death alone of the gods loves not frifts, nor do you need to otter incense or libations...
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Historical Essays

Joseph Barber Lightfoot - Church history - 1896 - 288 pages
...oak in the chimney are no epitaph of that oak, to tell me how high or how large that was; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what...distinguishes nothing. As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldst not, as of a prince whom thou couldst not look upon, will trouble thine eyes, if the wind blow...
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A Little Book of English Prose

Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...'•he Chimney, are no Epitaph of that Oak, to tell me how high or how large that was ; It tels me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what...when it fell. The dust of great persons' graves is speechlesse too, it sayes nothing, i: distinguishes nothing : As soon the dust of a tretch whom thou...
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Nelson's literature readers, selected and annotated by R. Garnett

Richard Garnett - 1902 - 296 pages
...an oak in a chimney are no epitaph of that, to tell me how high or how large that was ; it tells me not what flocks it sheltered while it stood, nor what men it hurt when it fell. — Dunne. 51. ESCAPE OF ROB ROY. We continued our march with considerable good order. To ensure the...
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