Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. The Stars of Heaven - Page 58by Clifford A. Pickover - 2004 - 256 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| 1883 - 92 pages
...absolute rest. If too late to bleed, rely upon the hypodermic administration of morphine. You may fail, but "in the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." Inject it cautiously, slowly, watching the effect upon her breathing ; slow it gradually ; bring it... | |
| 1879 - 640 pages
...in Bereavement. — " Life is a narrow vale, between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry...and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered... | |
| 1890 - 668 pages
...brother, he says : " Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry...and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." Then, again, in his remarks at the grave of a child of a friend, he says, " We do not know whether... | |
| 1879 - 590 pages
...thought of the contrast: " Life is a narrow vale, between the cold, barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights ; we cry...and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry." GIRLS IN INDIA. AMONG THE LOWER CLASSES. "THE threshold weeps forty days when a girl is born," says... | |
| James Baird McClure - 1879 - 284 pages
...vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the hights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry." This, then, is the despairing moan of one of the brightest infidels of our country — of one who is... | |
| James Baird McClure - 1879 - 192 pages
...comfort when you come to lie here." Ingersoll sadly says over the remains of his beloved brother, " We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry;" and, speaking of his dead brother, he says: " He climbed the hights, and left all superstition far... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1880 - 408 pages
...death, and said : " Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities ; we strive in vain to look beyond the heights ; we cry...and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered... | |
| John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 pages
...grandest of truths : Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry...a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of awing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered... | |
| Junius Benjamin Remensnyder - 1880 - 420 pages
...of mystery and death. Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry...lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word." Ah ! verily, none know so well, down in their deepest experiences, as do the votaries of Reason how... | |
| Robert Green Ingersoll - 1881 - 172 pages
...wilderness of fl iwers. Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry...and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered... | |
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