 | WILLIAM JAMES - 1902 - 566 pages
...this world, to count the grave my house, to make my bed in darkness, and to say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and sister. . . . The parting with my wife and my poor children hath often been to me as the pulling of... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 458 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... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1904 - 440 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... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - Death - 1905 - 484 pages
...Creator or Father • and the Scripture gives us a much worse kindred; I have said to Corruption, thou art my Father; and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister, Job 17. v. 14. 3. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, * and the heavens shall be rolled... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 796 pages
...worm feeding on them ; kindred of the earth shall you yourself become ; saying to the grave, " Thou art my father " ; and to the worm, "Thou art my mother, and my sister." I leave you to judge, and to choose, between this labour, and the bequeathed peace; these wages, and... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1907 - 454 pages
...touching this World, to count the Grave my House, to make my Bed in Darkness, to say to Corruption, Thou art my Father, and to the Worm, Thou art my Mother and Sister ; that is, to familiarize these things to me. 328. But notwithstanding these helps, I found... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 570 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... | |
 | Sir Edward Tyas Cook - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 602 pages
...worm feeding on them ; kindred of the earth shall you yourself become; saying to the grave, ' Thou art my father'; and to the worm, ' Thou art my mother, and my sister." " I leave you to judge, and to choose, between this labour, and the bequeathed peace; these wages,... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - Oratory - 1911 - 278 pages
...distinctions which become the vehicles of your dishonour. Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister. We would say of such a race of men, their name is a heavier burden than their debt. On this theme my... | |
 | Readers - 1911 - 494 pages
...days. We were 'shamed of ourselves. We used to hear the minister read: "I have said to Corruption. Thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother, and the stars are not pure in His sight ; how much less than that is a worm." Oh, we had to look out for... | |
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Thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister! 
