...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 plague was stayed.' " We have an interesting notice of the first appearance in the House of Earl Grey, by Mr. Addington,...

...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 with...

...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 world....

...grow where but one grew before ; pestilence, if one of the noblest acts of history is that of him who stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed ;— if in time of war, blessed are the peace-makers ; if in days of famine it be noble to feed the...

...grow where but one grew before ; pestilence, if one of the noblest acts of history is that of him who stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed ; — if in time of war, blessed are the peace-makers ; if in days of famine it be noble to feed the...

...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 it evidently...

...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...

...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...

...put fire thereon from off the altar, and ran into the midst of the congregation, and put on incense, and stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. Will no one do it now? We are encircled by the immortal memorials of those who fought the slave-trade,...

...priest intervened, when Moses interceded for Miriam, or that sublime picture, when Aaron with his censer stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. Such being the key-note of Hebrew Medicine, the growth of the profession is of extreme interest, both...