A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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FAME.

So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.—Joshua, vi. 27.

And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the Lord brought the fear of him upon all nations.—I. Chronicles, xiv. 17.

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

And his fame went throughout all Syria.—Matthew, iv. 23, 24.

But Fame, alarmed, o’er Libya’s cities flies:

Fame, the most fleet of mischief’s progenies:

Who gathers speed from every passing hour;

Grows as she moves, and travels into power.