| Book of Life. | [463 S.A.] |
"The Power . . . .
May hear well pleased the language of the soul,
And in His Book of Life the inmates poor enroll."
--Burns, The Cotter's Saturday Night.
| The Breastplate of Righteousness. | [448 S.A.] |
"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!"
--Shakespeare, II Henry VI 3:2.
| Bricks without Straw. | [150 H.T.] |
"For long years," writes Teufelsdrockh, "had the
poor Hebrew, in this Egypt of an
Auscultatorship, painfully toiled, baking bricks
without stubble, before ever the question once
struck him with entire force: For What?"
--Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 5.
| The Broken Reed. | [272 S.A.] |