Sights and Sensations in France, Germany, and Switzerland: Or, Experiences of an American Journalist in Europe ... |
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Page 199 - And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great trump shall thrill thee with its warning.
Page 78 - BETTER trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed one's life with true believing. Oh, in this mocking world, too fast The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth; Better be cheated to the last Than lose the blessed hope of truth.
Page 122 - Years of labour and of thought were expended in contriving, combining, and expeiimenting ; and the result has been the perforating machine, moved by common air compressed to onesixth its natural bulk, and consequently when set free exercising an expansive force equal to that of six atmospheres, which are now working their way through the Alps at the rate of three yards a day. The work was commenced by hand at Bardonêche in 1857, and continued till 1861, when the perforators were introduced, after...
Page 290 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await, alike, the inevitable hour — The path of glory leads but to the grave.
Page 250 - ... heaped up without any kind of order, except that those from each cemetery were kept separate. In 1810, a regular system of arranging the bones was commenced under the direction of M. Hericart de Thury. Openings were made in many places to admit air, channels formed to carry off the water, steps were constructed from the lower to the upper excavations, pillars erected to support the dangerous parts of the vault, and the skulls and bones built up along the walls.
Page 249 - April, 1786, and on the same day the removal from the cemeteries began. This work was always performed at night; the bones were brought in funeral cars, covered with a pall, followed by priests, chanting the service of the dead, and when they reached the Catacombs were shot down the shaft. The tomb-stones, monuments...