...is resolved, into dust from whence it springs. With the coffined clay that they surround, "they have 5 A sister and my mother." They are no longer property, and their relations with the living are at an end....

...is resolved into dust from whence it springs. With the coffined clay that they surround, "they have said to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my sister and my mother." They are no longer property, and their relations with the living are at an end....

...blush for these 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...

...blush for these 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...

...good idea o' man. those 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...

...with the 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,...

...which have been the 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,...

...come ; and as touching 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: that is, to familiarize these things to me." But notwithstanding these helps, I found myself...

...them; ... as touching 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...

...that have been the children of royal parents, and the parents of royal children, must say with Job, "Corruption, thou art my father," and to the worm, "Thou art my mother and sister." Miserable riddle, when the same worm must be my mother and my sister and myself. Miserable...