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" Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being,... "
The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a ... - Page 298
by Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 578 pages
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The United States Review and Literary Gazette, Volume 1

American periodicals - 1827 - 496 pages
...orderly set of people, moving, from the constitution of European society, in those humble walks of life, where, to be born and die Of rich and poor makes all the history. In these modern days, civility and servility are often found as hard to be distinguished,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the spore lx.Hn.iu ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been. When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch, who living sav'da caudle's end ; Shouldering God's altar a vile...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...nor is it in my power to follow the advice of the poet, in an inquiry after a name — " Go ! search it there, where to be born, and die, Of rich and poor makas all the history," — so recent is the institution of our parish registers. In the beginning...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...unknown!— Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. Go search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor, makes all the history; Enough, that virtue filled the space between; Proved by the ends of being to have been. LESSON...
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The Life of Sir Thomas More

Cresacre More - Christian martyrs - 1828 - 470 pages
...of John only son of the chancellor. But having occasion not long ago to consult one of those records Where to be born and die Of rich and poor makes all the history, a date was discovered, coinciding with a fact which the author relates concerning himself,...
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The Life of Sir Thomas More

Cresacre More - Christian martyrs - 1828 - 456 pages
...of John only son of the chancellor. But having occasion not long ago to consult one of those records Where to be born and die Of rich and poor makes all the history, a date was discovered, coinciding with a fact which the author relates concerning himself,...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, . Will never mark the marble with his name. Go search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor, makes all the history ; Enough, that virtue filled the space between ; Proved by the ends of being to have been....
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name ; Go, -search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history; Enough, that virtue (HIM the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been. —...
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The British Magazine, Volume 2

1832 - 564 pages
...pages will justify, by their meagreness, Pope's sarcastic allusion to a Parish Register — " Go seek it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor, makes all the history." Not such was good Thomas Crockford's notion of what parochial archives should consist. He...
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Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns

Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...trite text, Mors omnibus communis ? What is it, but a barren abstract of the annals of mortality — Where to be born, and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ? It might, indeed, set on a calculator, or a life-insurance broker, to compute the comparative...
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