"Apr" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not? One of them is there. I have been nearly in the other world. My regret was 'to die and leave the world "rough" copy'. Otherwise I had thought of an epitaph and a good end. Hic jacent reliquiae mortales Gulielmi Hazlitt, auctoris non intelligibilis: natus Maidstoniae in comi [ta] tu Cantiae, Apr. 10, 1778. Obiit Winterslowe, Dec., 1827. I think of writing an epistle to C. Lamb, Esq., to say that I have passed near the shadowy world, and have had new impressions of the vanity of this, with hopes of a better. Don't ...
— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various
... Burgundian monastery of Semur. He loved to declaim against princes and great men, and obscured his literary glory by his bitter invectives. One of his works is entitled Excommunication des Ecclsiastiques qui ont assist au service divin avec Henri de Valois aprs l'assassinat du Cardinal de Guise (1589, in-8). Certainly the judgment of posterity has not fulfilled the ...
— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield
... ornament for the head. It is only when [Hebrew: wvM] is understood in the sense, "to put upon," or, "to put on," that there is a sufficient reason for adding [Hebrew: ntN]; but that is not the case when it is taken in the signification "to grant," "to appoint." [Hebrew: par] "crown," and [Hebrew: apr] "ashes," are connected with one another, because mourners were accustomed to strew ashes on their heads. The expression "oil of joy," which is to be explained from the custom of people anointing themselves ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg
... vous rpte, qui ni les Ministres, ni le Sultan, ne pouvaient absolument pas sauver la vie de l'Armnien. Les lois du Coran ne forcent personne de se faire Musulman; mais elles sont inexorables tant l'gard du Musulman qui embrasse une autre religion, qu' l'gard du non-Musulman qui, aprs avoir de son propre gr embrass publiquement l'Islamisme, est convaincu d'y avoir renonc. Nulle considration ne peut faire commuer la peine capitale laquelle la loi le condamne sans misricorde. ...
— Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism • Various |
