Westminster abbey and the cathedrals of England (1895)
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903, Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868, Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 · Philadelphia : J. C. Winston & co. · leaf 55
48 Westnii)ister Abbey. stone, and affects us the more deeply from the great events amidst which it isenshrined. There is no other inscription of all these hundreds which recalls thepathetic, exquisite simplicity of the epitaphs in the Catacombs, where the perse-cuted Christians of the first… … DEAN STANLEYS ALTAR-TOMB. he himself would have approved. It gives no pompous enumeration of titles andhonours, but the date of his career, and the appropriate text— I know that all things come to an end ;But Thy commandments are exceeding broad. I think that a visit to the Abbey may teach us two…
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