"Doxology" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there occurred passages that were querulous and even abject, there were also long passages of manly and altogether noble sentiment, and the strangest rodomontade and maunderings about religion. Here and there a letter would gradually transform itself into a prayer, and end with a doxology and no signature; and some of them expressed such wild and disordered views respecting religion, as I imagine he can never have disclosed to good Mr. Fairfield, and which approached more nearly to the Swedenborg visions than to anything in ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... a regular row, like a pair of stairs. These being done, came miscellaneous exercises of our own invention, such as counting all the psalms in the psalm book, backward and forward, to and from the Doxology, or numbering the books in the Bible, or some other such device as we deemed within the pale of religious employments. When all these failed, and it still wanted an hour of meeting time, we looked up at the ceiling, and down at the floor, and all around into every corner, to see what ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... not until after the doxology had been sung and they had come out into the open air that the ...
— Pearl and Periwinkle • Anna Graetz |
