| 1816 - 600 páginas
...swaddling I / band for it — and brake up for it my decreed place — and set bars and doors, and said, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther — and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." • Is there not a beautiful coincidence between this passage sad the following lines from... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 468 páginas
...brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ?" Job xxxviii. 3, 4; 5, &c. " He that reproveth God let him answer this. O Lord, such knowledge is too wonderful for... | |
| Isaac Stockton Keith - 1816 - 470 páginas
...when he pleases, he command! the stormy winds into a calm ; and says to the swelling boisterous sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." In his government of mankind, however, and for the accomplishment of his wise designs, relating... | |
| 1816 - 644 páginas
...swaddling band for it — and brake up for it my decreed place-<— and set bars and doors, and said, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther — and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Is there not a beautiful coincidence between this passage and the following lines from Milton,... | |
| 1868 - 800 páginas
...the stupendous seawall of the reef, which indeed sets a bound to the mighty ocean, saying, "Thus far shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed;" and compared with which the works of man in his highest mechanical development are but as... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 398 páginas
...When it would attempt to go beyond its prescribed limit, he says to it, as to the waters of the ocean, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. All this shall be fully verified and declared by the last issue of things ; when we shall be... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 404 páginas
...attempt to go beyond its prescribed limit, he says to it, as to the waters of the ocean, Hitherto shall thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. All this shall be fully verified and declared by the last issue of things ; when we shall be... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 526 páginas
...attempt to go beyond its prescribed limit, he says to it, as to the waters of the ocean, Hitherto shall thou come but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. All this shall be fully verified and declared by the last issue of things; when we shall be... | |
| Edward Bishop Elliott - 1821 - 60 páginas
...health it needed to the fainting field. for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ?" No words are thine, mute Nature, to express Thy hourly tale of want, and of distress ! But... | |
| 1826 - 918 páginas
...without awakening the deepest reflections. Here it was, that a defied providence said," Hitherto shall thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." The note, too, which Mr. Henderson has appended from Count Segur presents a striking picture... | |
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