| Isaac Stockton Keith - 1816 - 470 pàgines
...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... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 398 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... | |
| Edward Bishop Elliott - 1821 - 60 pàgines
...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... | |
| Henry Horne - 1823 - 266 pàgines
...as much as it would lose its saltness, at the wish of Mortality, instead of the fiat which said, ' Hitherto sha.lt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be staid.'" LETTER XXIX. A SHORT time after our last conversation, L and myself passed a person who had... | |
| 1825 - 594 pàgines
...nothing" — "who formed the mountains and created the winds" — " who shut up the sea, and said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be staid." And in the lively contemplation of the marvellous wisdom and onraipotcnce that overlooks and... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 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 ? Job xxxviii. 8 — 11. Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and... | |
| 1840 - 538 pàgines
...quiet the mind under such a state of things. There is but One who can say to the tide of unbelief, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ? The promise for the day was looked at, it ran thus — A remnant shall be saved. O what an... | |
| Samuel Warren, Anne Warren - 1827 - 326 pàgines
...pure air from the sen, and contemplating that stupendous proof of His almighty power, who saith; " Hitherto shalt thou come but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed !"—My dear love to Mary. Tell her, I am sorry I put her to the expence of postage for such... | |
| Lyman Beecher - 1827 - 116 pàgines
...might rise up as a rampart, against which the fiery waves of internperance would dash in vain, saying, hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. To all our schools instruction on this subject should be communicated, and the Sabbath schools... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - 1828 - 428 pàgines
...nothing," — " who formed the mountains and created the winds," — " who •hut up the sea, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be staid." And in the lively contemplation of the marvellous. wisdom and omnipotence that overlooks and... | |
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