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... language , a prejudice should arise in the breast of any individual , that these Lectures are addressed only to the learned , I think it a duty to anticipate a misapprehension which might interfere both with his entertainment and ...
... language , a prejudice should arise in the breast of any individual , that these Lectures are addressed only to the learned , I think it a duty to anticipate a misapprehension which might interfere both with his entertainment and ...
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... language would exhibit the subject in a much fairer and more ad- vantageous light , than in the original form . The ... languages . But the utility of these Lectures as a system of criticism , is , perhaps , their small- est merit . They ...
... language would exhibit the subject in a much fairer and more ad- vantageous light , than in the original form . The ... languages . But the utility of these Lectures as a system of criticism , is , perhaps , their small- est merit . They ...
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... language , I mean his para- phrase of the xivth of Isaiah . When I could find no translation to answer my purpose , I was obliged to attempt the ver- sification of the passages myself . The public will therefore recollect , that I was a ...
... language , I mean his para- phrase of the xivth of Isaiah . When I could find no translation to answer my purpose , I was obliged to attempt the ver- sification of the passages myself . The public will therefore recollect , that I was a ...
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... language would admit . Convinced , on the whole , of the utility of this publication , and yet aware of my own inability to do it justice , I dismiss it with that mixed emotion of confidence and humility which such a situation naturally ...
... language would admit . Convinced , on the whole , of the utility of this publication , and yet aware of my own inability to do it justice , I dismiss it with that mixed emotion of confidence and humility which such a situation naturally ...
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... language most proper for prophecy - Extremely dark in itself , but it is gradually cleared up by the series of events foretold , and more complete revelation ; time also , which in the general obscures , contributes to its full ...
... language most proper for prophecy - Extremely dark in itself , but it is gradually cleared up by the series of events foretold , and more complete revelation ; time also , which in the general obscures , contributes to its full ...
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Page 211 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 334 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 301 - He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate, Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood ; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed : On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes.
Page 273 - And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.
Page 230 - While thus he spake, the angelic squadron bright Turn'd fiery red, sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx, and began to hem him round With ported spears, as thick as when a field Of Ceres, ripe for harvest, waving bends Her bearded grove of ears, which way the wind Sways them ; the careful ploughman doubting stands, Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff.
Page 239 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 123 - And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Page 331 - to rejoice with them that do rejoice, and to weep with them that weep...
Page 171 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 225 - But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, Yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands ; Thy walls are continually before me.