 | Dionysius Lardner - 1855 - 302 páginas
...an answer! Might he not exclaim after the inspired author of the book of Job:— " Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are" !! xxxviii., 35. But, suppose that his foresight should further enable him to pronounce that means... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1855 - 48 páginas
...own, and thus enabling man to answer the sublime interrogatory addressed to Job, "Cans't thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?" Yes; they now come at our command, and say, Here we are, ready to do your work. And it was our illustrious... | |
 | George Willis - 1855 - 112 páginas
...telegraph not a new idea ; there is also a curious foreshadowing of it in Job xxxviii. 35, "Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?" WWB The Third Volume of Willis's Current Notes, is now published, price THREE SHILLINGS, in eloth boards.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 436 páginas
...the same emotion. We comprehend now the answer to the sublime question put to Job : " Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, ' Here we are !' " And we feel that this is all but an experiment as yet, and so toil earnestly on after new victories,... | |
 | 1855 - 784 páginas
...enabled to answer Job (xxxviii., 36,) in the affirmative, who, 2,000 years ago, asked, " Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee ' Here we are !' " EARLY MANUFACTURES IN NEW ENGLAND. Fire-arms were manufactured in large quantities in colony times.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 482 páginas
...the other sources. CHARLES V. WALKER. BY CHARLES V. WALKER. LESSON L EARLY EFFORTS. " Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?" 1. THE word Telegraph is composed of two Greek words, signifying to write or describe at a distance;... | |
 | 1856 - 578 páginas
...Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee ? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are J Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts ? or who hath given understanding to the heart? Who can number... | |
 | William Chambers - 1856 - 570 páginas
...scope of the phenomena, we may say without irreverence that the sublime inquiry — ' Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?' — has, in one grand sense, been answered in the affirmative. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Hark ! the warning... | |
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Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are? 
