My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies! Sermons - Página 203por Edward Dorr Griffin - 1839Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Dorr Griffin - 1839 - 628 páginas
...the language of our bereaved father : — " The tender sympathy of our friends here and abroad, haa been unbounded, and the love of our Father and Saviour...you have been where I stood for two months ; each day ministering to one who seemed just ready to take his upward flight ; each day listening, perhaps... | |
| William Buell Sprague - 1839 - 316 páginas
...sentiment of the beloved Cowper our own : " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthion'd, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud...you have been where I stood for two months ; each day ministering to one who seemed just ready to take his upward flight ; each day listening, perhaps... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 páginas
...thought is joy, arrive what may to me. 35 My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the Earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents, passed into the skies. EXERCISE 104. , . Extract from "The Grave." — MONTGOMERY 1... | |
| William Cowper - 1839 - 554 páginas
...thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell ! — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course,... | |
| Thomas Bartlett - 1839 - 586 páginas
...upon receiving his Mother's Portrait, My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the Earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies ! The station to which, by the Divine blessing, the piety and... | |
| 1839 - 428 páginas
...boast is not, that I deduce my birth That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise— The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell!—Time unrevoked has run His wonted course,... | |
| John Newton Brown - 1840 - 284 páginas
...the beautiful language of Cowper — " My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.'' AND is it so — my father — mother — gone ? Are they both... | |
| 1840 - 508 páginas
...earliest childhood 1 heard no more. " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth, But higher far my proud pretensions rise — ~ Son of a mother pas.'d into the skies." ' After the decease of his mother, I desired him," continues... | |
| 1847 - 396 páginas
...and they are led to exclaim, ,My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enihroned, and'rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The child of parents pass'd into the skies.' The subject of this brief memoir became identified with? the hand of devoted... | |
| 1844 - 444 páginas
...the sight of his mother's picture — " My boast is not that I deduce my birlh From loius enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies." Mr. George Hardstaff was born at Annesley, a small village in... | |
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