Buchanan's Journal of Man, Volume 2

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J.R. Buchanan, 1888
 

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Page 160 - No braying horn nor screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now.
Page 162 - May the Father who created man, curse him. May the Son who suffered for us, curse him.- May the Holy Ghost, who was given to us in baptism, curse him (Obadiah) May the holy cross which Christ, for our salvation triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him.
Page 82 - The man may not marry any of his wife's kindred nearer in blood than he may of his own, nor the woman of her husband's kindred nearer in blood than of her own.
Page 168 - ... if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 33 - So strong was the impression of the dream that I wrote a detailed account of it next morning to my fiancee. Crossing my letter, not in answer to it, I received a letter from the lady in question: "Were you thinking about me, very specially, last night, just about 10 o'clock? For, as I was going upstairs to bed, I distinctly heard your footsteps on the stairs, and felt you put your arms round my waist...
Page 160 - The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as the blood ye gave ; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Page 102 - ... experiencing pleasure from an influence which was mysterious to me. From this moment I wished to wake, and was less at my ease ; and yet on Mr Townshend asking me, whether I wished to be awakened, I made a hesitating movement with my shoulders. Mr Townshend then repeated some frictions, which increased my sleep ; yet I was always conscious of what was passing around me. He then asked me, if I wished to become lucid, at the same time continuing, as I felt, the frictions from the face to the arms....
Page 161 - To be conquer'd by the right ; While Oppression lifts a finger To affront us by his might ; While an error clouds the reason Of the universal heart, • Or a slave awaits his freedom, Action is the wise man's part.
Page 238 - WHEN a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her : then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 34 - I examined the chair where I had seen him seated, I returned to bed, tried to fall asleep in the hope of a repetition of the appearance ; but my mind was too excited, too painfully disturbed, as I recalled what I had dreamed. I must have, however, fallen asleep towards the morning ; but when I awoke, the impression of my dream was as vivid as ever, — and I may add is to this very hour equally strong and clear. My sense of impending evil was so strong that I at once made a note in my memorandum...

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