 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...him, " Mr. Pitt preferred power to principle ; " but of his resistance to Jacobinical principles, " He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed." Fox said of his rival's speech on the renewal of the war with France, in 1803, "He has spoken... | |
 | John Ross MacDuff - 1885 - 302 pages
...words of another, " was from a cloudless April sky in the courts of the Temple." Like another Aaron, " He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed." In the lowly emblem of our text, the Corn of Wheat dies, and becomes the life of a perishing... | |
 | Old Residents' Historical Association of Lowell (Mass.) - Lowell (Mass.) - 1888 - 516 pages
...the unremitting care, the fidelity and patience with which the good physician ministered unto them. ' He stood between the living and the dead and the plague was staid.' ' This was only one of the many of the duties which he performed as a public medical benefactor... | |
 | Abijah Perkins Marvin - 1892 - 610 pages
...zealous for my sake among them." 3. "What may be done by one minister ? " Aaron was but one man, yet he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. A volume came out in London in 1695 which may properly be connected with this year, because... | |
 | 1894 - 976 pages
...close to the tomb of Catherine Mompesson in Eyam churchyard. It bears the very appropriate text«: "And he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed" ; " For the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life " ; and the brief statement... | |
 | English literature - 1894 - 982 pages
...close to the tomb of Catherine Mompesson in Eyam churchyard. It bears the very appropriate texts: "And he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed " : " For the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life " ; and the brief statement... | |
 | William Edward Addis - Bible - 1898 - 512 pages
...had begun among the people, but he put in the incense and made propitiation for the people. 13. Thus he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. 14. But they that died of the plague were fourteen thou sand, seven hundred, besides those... | |
 | John Comper - Liturgics - 1898 - 410 pages
...and put Num. xvi. 4s. on incense, and made an atonement for the people, smitten with the plague. " He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed." Outram, as quoted by Mr Willis, well says : "As the Jewish high priest was a shadowy image... | |
 | David Nelson Patterson - Obituaries - 1899 - 138 pages
...unremitting 97 care, the fidelity and patience with which the good physician ministered unto them. 'He stood between the living and the dead and the plague was staid.' " This was only one of the many of the duties which he performed as a public medical benefactor... | |
 | 1899 - 394 pages
...periods we frequently catch the echo of the magnificent outbursts of the Hebrew prophets and poets. " He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed " (Numbers xvi.), said Wilberforce, describing Pitt's unwavering opposition to the revolutionary... | |
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Few passages can be cited in the oratory of modern times of a more electrical effect than the singularly felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : — " He stood between the living and the dead, and the... 
