...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 staid. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring...

...ordinary degree of interest a rock which has braved for centuries the ocean's rage, practically saying, ' hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' With still greater interest, though of a somewhat different kind, should we contemplate a...

...shores. Who reared these volcanic walls but that Being, who sets bounds to the sea, and has said, " hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." LOSS OF THE WILLIAM AND ANNE. 161 This vast expanse of ocean and these stupendous works of...

...the sous of God shouted for joy ? Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed? Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the day-spring to know his place...

...aswaddlingband for it. 10. And brake up for it my decreed 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 place,...

...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. 11. But much more are rational creatures subject to a law, seeing they are capable...

...ordinary degree of interest, a rock which has braved for centuries the ocean's rage, practically saying, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." With still greater interest, though of a somewhat different kind, should we contemplate a...

...ordinary degree of interest, a rock which has braved for centuries the ocean's rage, practically saying, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." With still greater interest, though of a somewhat different kind, should we contemplate a...

...with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and saved his people, saying to the leviathan of the great deep, " Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." As the literal earth is upheld above the waters by the covenant with Noah, so the mystical...

...only to the separation of the waters at that time, like that fine passage in a subsequent chapter, 'Hitherto shalt thou come but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,' or perhaps to the Deluge. He would not have so slightly mentioned the wonderful division of...