| John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 páginas
...parallel among the Greek or Roman poets. They bring to mind that noble descri ption in the book of Job : " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep...eyes : — There was silence . and I heard a voice — Shall mortal man be more just than Go.i ?"* LESSON XC. The Dungeon. — LYRICAL BALLADS. AND this... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 páginas
...book of Job:— " Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ears received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep...mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice." From these sublime and decisive authorities, it is evident that the exhibition of supernatural appearances... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 páginas
...book of Job:— " Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine earn received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep...face : the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, hut I could not discern the form thereof; an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 páginas
...feared that the brute's voice, and the trampling of the horse's feet would have disturbed her. 328. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of...mine eyes: — There was silence, and I heard a voice — Shall mortal man be more just than God ? The Dash is sometimes to be read as a question. 329. Is... | |
| Jacob Henry B. Mountain - 1835 - 482 páginas
...authorise a belief in the occasional visitations of supernatural beings to warn and instruct mankind. " A spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh...eyes;" "there was silence, and I heard a voice.'" I think, therefore, that, without discrediting the declarations of Holy Scripture, we have no room... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 páginas
...falltth upon men, fear came upon me and tremblmg, which made ail my bones to shake. Then a spirit parsed — Shall mortal man, be more just than God? We are first prepared with the utmost solemuity for the... | |
| Friedrich August G. Tholuck - 1836 - 334 páginas
...occasioned by your repeated relapses, rendered you more doubtful of your good than of your evil ? ' In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep...mine eyes. There was silence, and I heard a voice, Shall mortal man be more just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker ? Behold, he putteth... | |
| 1836 - 544 páginas
...with repeated rising than with falling, more doubtful of the existence of good than of evil ? — " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep...my flesh stood up : it stood still but I could not discover the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence and I heard a voice saying,... | |
| Joseph Wilson (Minister of Laxton.) - 1836 - 408 páginas
...as Eliphaz says, " Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof, in thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep...before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up.., .and I heard a voice, saying, shall mortal man be more just than God ? shalla man be more pure than... | |
| George Augustus Addison - 1837 - 372 páginas
...from the Book of Job. " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on man, fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my...was silence. And I heard a voice, saying, ' shall mortal man be more just than God ? — Shall a man be more pure than his Maker ?' " What can be more... | |
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