SCRIPTURE SCRIPTURE
It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
Sydney Smith—Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. I. P. 15.
That knuckle-end of England—that land of
Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
Sydney Smith—Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol.
II. P. 17.
Now the summer's in prime
Wi' the flowers richly blooming,
And the wild mountain thyme
A' the moorlands perfuming.
To own dear native scenes
Let us journey together,
Where glad innocence reigns
'Mang the braes o' Balquhither.
Robert Tannahjll—The Braes o' Balquhither.
In short, he and the Scotch have no way of
redeeming the credit of their understandings,
but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio,
stanno qui.
Horace Walpole—To the Rev. William
Mason. Aug. 2, or 6, 1778.
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SCRIPTURE
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| author = Chaucer
| work = Canterbury Tales. Prologue.
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| text = <poem>A glory gilds the sacred page,
Majestic like the sun,
It gives a light to every age,
It gives, but borrows none.
| author = Cowper
| work = Olney Hymns. No. 30.
One day at least in every week,
The sects of every kind
Their doctrines here are sure to seek,
And just as sure to find.
Augustus De Morgan. In preface to from
Matter to Spirit, by C. D.
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere
Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,
Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire
In all things which our needful faith require.
Dryden—Beligio Laid. L. 297.
Out from the heart of nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old.
Emerson—The Problem.
The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:
The word by seers or sibyls told,
In groves of oak or fanes of gold,
Still floats upon the morning wind,
Still whispers to the willing mind.
Emerson—The Problem.
It was a common saying among the Puritans,
"Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."
Matthew Henry—Commentaries. Isaiah
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths
where an elephant would drown.
Matthew Henry—Of Solomon's Song.
Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.
| author = Herbert
| work = The Church. Sin.
Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse;
This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.
| author = Herbert
| work = The Church. The Holy Scriptures.
Pt. II.
So we're all right, an' I, for one.
Don't think our cause'll lose in vally
By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun,
An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
| author = Lowell
| work = The Biglow Pavers. Second Series.
No. 7. St. 17.
The history of every individual man should
be a Bible.
Novalis—Christianity or Europe. Carlyle's trans.
Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord!
Star of Eternity! The only star
By which the bark of man could navigate
The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss
Securely.
Pollok—Course of Time. Bk. II. L. 270.
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditations.
' >. CXIX. 99.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light
unto my path.
Psalms. CXIX. 105.
The sweet psalmist of Israel.
II Samuel. XXIII. 1.
Within that awful volume lies
The mystery of mysteries!
Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch, and force the way:
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
Scott—Monastery. Ch. XII.
But Thy good word informs my soul
How I may climb to heaven.
Watts—Excellency of the Bible.
How glad the heathens would have been,
That worship idols, wood and stone,
If they the book of God had seen.
Watts—Praise for the Gospel.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of
doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of
religion, of especial revelation from God.
Daniel Webster—Completion of Bunker HiU
Monument. June 17, 1843.
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