risen

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A premature decay Has greeted, and will ever greet, that land Whose weak foundation trembles in the sand XXXI The sword is mighty; by its bloody might Empires have risen--risen but to fall.

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  • A premature decay Has greeted, and will ever greet, that land Whose weak foundation trembles in the sand XXXI The sword is mighty; by its bloody might Empires have risen--risen but to fall. —  The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic
  • As a still further specimen of the arbitrary thinking the unscientific and unphilosophical thinking carried into this department of thought by most who have cultivated it, reference may be made to Bishop Burnet's work "De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium," which teaches that at the first resurrection the bodies of the risen will be the same as the present, but at the second resurrection, after the millennium, from the rudiments of the present body a new spiritual body will be developed The true idea of man's future destiny appears to be that no resurrection of the flesh is needed, because the real man never dies, but lives continuously forever. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • Therefore Clare has risen, FitzOsborne has risen, Montgomery has risen--whom our First William made an English Earl. —  Puck of Pook's Hill
  • The immense popularity of this movement and its rapid spread formed a significant reply to the insensate calls for vengeance on England which had risen from the French army, and which seemed worthy of attention in view of the vast increase now made in the naval strength of France, and of other preparations indicating that the Emperor meditated a great military enterprise. —  Great Britain and Her Queen
  • There could be no doubt that Christ had died and risen, and was alive for evermore. —  The Coming of the Friars
 

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