"Holy scripture" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sepulchres of the Kings as very singular remains of ancient architecture, and standing at a little distance from the city. There still prevails some obscurity in regard to the origin and intention of these places of burial, occasioned chiefly by the fact recorded in Holy Scripture, that the tombs of the kings of Judah were on Mount Zion. Pococke held the opinion, that they derived their name from Helena, the queen of Adiabene, whose body was deposited in a cave outside the northern wall of Jerusalem; a conclusion which derives some countenance from the language ...
— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell
... as we said, is firmly convinced that sin will be punished in Hell. But where is Hell? Popular tradition attributing an infernal connection with volcanic phenomena and moved by those passages in Holy Scripture which describe Hell as a place to which the reprobate descend, locates Hell in the interior of the earth. Dante not only follows this tradition for his Hell, but he does what no other writer before or after him ever did—he constructs a Hell with such rare architectural skill that the awful structure ...
— Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" • John T. Slattery
... and the deserts lying between that peninsula [p.xiii]and Judaea, have not, like the latter country, preserved many of the names of Holy Scripture, the new information of Burckhardt contains many facts in regard to their geography and natural history, which may be useful in tracing the progress of the Israelites from ...
— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt
... be. And as this piece of yours aims at nothing more than to destroy the authority and influence which books of chivalry have in the world and with the public, there is no need for you to go a-begging for aphorisms from philosophers, precepts from Holy Scripture, fables from poets, speeches from orators, or miracles from saints; but merely to take care that your style and diction run musically, pleasantly, and plainly, with clear, proper, and well-placed words, setting forth your purpose to the best of your power, and putting your ideas ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... aprendre ne de le faire. For to lerne ne for to doo. Se nest lescripture Yf it were not the scripture 16 La loy & foy periroyent, The law and faith shold perisshe, Et toute la saincte escripture And all the holy scripture Ne seroit mise en oubly. Shall not be put in forgeting. Pour ce chescun loial xpristien Therfore euery true cristen man 20 Le doibt faire aprendere Ought for to do lerne A ses enfans et parens; To ...
— Dialogues in French and English • William Caxton
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