 | Daniel Bellamy - 1789 - 512 pàgines
...DARKNESS A 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. THERE is a very great air, fays Dr. Young, in all that precedes, but this is fignally fublime.... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pàgines
...mightier power of Him who has said to the turbulent intellect of man, as well as to the stormy ocean, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, — and here shall thy 'proud waves be staid.' We cannot wish better to any such agitated mind than that it may listen to those potent and... | |
 | Thomas Williams - 1803 - 72 pàgines
...and designs of Providence ; but the Almighty controuls these, just as he does the raging billows—" Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." To these evil angels they likewise attributed the infliction of diseases of all kinds, particularly... | |
 | James Fisher - 1806 - 352 pàgines
...planets with his hand, and swaddled the ocean with thick darkness, setting doors and bars, saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stay.-. cd : should himself be wrapt in swaddling^ cloathes, and laid in a manger ; have his hands... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1808 - 326 pàgines
...boundaries to the sea, and obliged this impetuous element to respect the commands of its Creator, who says, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Job xxxviii. 11. We have seen him not only supersede the laws of nature, but likewise discover... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 446 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1809 - 522 pàgines
...swaddling band for it, 10. And brake up for it my deereed place, and set bars and doors, 11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be staid. 12. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ? and caused the day-spring to know . his... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 520 pàgines
...creatures, is subjected to a law. God hedges it in as it were with a girdle of sand, saying to it, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,' Job xxxviii. 1 1 . But much more are rational creatures subject to a law, seeing they are... | |
 | 1816 - 600 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1816 - 644 pàgines
...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,... | |
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Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? 
