 | Richard Lloyd - 1825 - 392 pages
...creature. He is but of yesterday ; he dwells in houses of clay, and may justly say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and sister ! ' No arrow that fiieth by day, or pestilence that walketh in darkness,' is needed to destroy... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...and the highest order of spirits as his brethren, may, in another respect, say ', corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister." ADDISON. SECTfoN XXI. & Ob-nox-ious, ftb-nak'-phfis, subject, liable to punishment ft Con-tin-gen-cy,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 500 pages
...distinctions, which become the vehicles of your dishonor. Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. We should say of such a race of men, their name is a heavier burden than their debt. 293 I can scarcely... | |
 | Orators - 1900 - 526 pages
...distinctions, which become the vehicles of your dishonor. Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. We should say of such a race of men, their name is a heavier burden than their debt. * * * (Delivered... | |
 | Literature - 1900 - 460 pages
...distinctions, which become the vehicles of your dishonor. Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. We should say of such a race of men, their name is a heavier burden than their debt. . . . The refusal... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...children of royal parents, and the parents of royal children, must say with Job: " To corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister." Miserable riddle, when the same worm must be my mother and my sister and myself. Miserable incest,... | |
 | Charles Mathews Sturges - Philippines - 1900 - 11 pages
...solemn debate, make its option to be faithless. * * Such a nation ' might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and sister." Fisher Ames. (Speech in Congress, April 28, 1798. Works, Boston. 1809; pp. 83-84.) "America... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 438 pages
...distinctions, which become the vehicles of your dishonor. Such a nation might truly say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. We should say of such a race of men, their name is a heavier burden than their debt. I can scarcely... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 448 pages
...children of royal parents, and the parents of royal children, must say with Job: " To corruption, Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister." Miserable riddle, when the same worm must be my mother and my sister and myself. Miserable incest,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 464 pages
...distinctions, which become the vehicles of your dishonor. Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. We should say of such a race of men, their name is a heavier burden than their debt. ... : . . The... | |
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Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister! 
