 | Agnes Lindsay Carnegie (Hon.) - 1903 - 318 oldal
...our time find almost the same imagery in the famous words of John Bright during the Crimean War: — "The angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings." Let us therefore, in remembering the dead who have fallen in this war, think... | |
 | Cyril Ranger Gull - 1904 - 424 oldal
...mind. The plangent power and deep earnestness of the words were even more applicable now than then. " The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land: you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood... | |
 | Edward Latham - 1906 - 338 oldal
...duty. I \J PRESIDENTWlLLIAMMcKlNLEY \ (1843-1901) —in a speech at Red- 'lands (Cal.), May 8, 1901. 0 The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. JOHN BRIGHT (1811-89) — m tne House of Commons, Feb. 23, 1855, referring to... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1908 - 340 oldal
...where a false step, a jarring note, a misplaced word, would have brought it down in hideous ruin. " The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings." When the sentence was half completed, the hearers — as one of them told me... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 oldal
...distant one may return — many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive. The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the...is no one to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the sideposis of our doors, that he may spare and pass on ; but he calls at the castle of the noble, the... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - 1909 - 346 oldal
...distant one may return — many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive. The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood... | |
 | 1909 - 910 oldal
...such flight, for instance, as that in which Mr. Bright stilled the House of Commons by declaring " the Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land. You may almost hear the beating of his wings." I only once had the privilege of being with Mr. Bright when he delivered one... | |
 | John Bright - 1910 - 296 oldal
...distant one may return — many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive. The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood... | |
 | Richard Barry O'Brien - 1910 - 332 oldal
...distant one may return — many such homes may be rendered desolate when the next mail shall arrive. The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood... | |
 | Harry Graham - 1910 - 416 oldal
...prayer were greeted. When Bright, during the Crimean War, delivered himself of that famous phrase, " The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of its wings ! " it was a question as to how members would take so sentimental a simile. Had... | |
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The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. 
