 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...breath of thy nostrils.' When the Holy One alighted upon Mount Sinai, ' his glory covered the heavens ; he stood and measured the earth : he beheld and drove...perpetual hills did bow ; his ways are everlasting.' Then the prophet ' saw the tents of Cushan in affliction, and the curtains of the land of Midian did... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1819 - 248 pages
...happily, there is a passage in Hafc. iii. G, where the same word is used for very different things ; "He stood and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove...asunder the nations ; and the everlasting' mountains ware scattered, the purpetual hills did bow: His ways are everlasting." In our translation, the mountains,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Thayer - Bereavement - 1819 - 230 pages
...prophet Habakkuk, " He stood, and measured the earth; he beheld and drove 119 asunder tbe nations ; the everlasting mountains were scattered ; the perpetual hills did bow ; his ways are everlasting." Thus Isaiah, describing the future glory of the church, " Violence shall no more be heard in the land,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...terror are applied for heightening the sublime. So, also, the prophet Habakkuk, in a similar passage: " He stood, and measured the earth ; he beheld, and drove asunder the nations. The everlasting mountains were scattered; the perpetual hills did bow ; his ways are everlasting. The... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1819 - 248 pages
...happily, there is a passage in Hab. iii. C, where the same word is used for very different thiegs ; "He stood and measured the earth ; He beheld, and drove asunder the nation* ; and the everlasting mountains w»pe scattered, the purpetual hills 'lid bow : His ways are... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1825 - 392 pages
...was full of his praise.' " Before him we"nt the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. "He stood and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove...perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting. " I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction : and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. " Was... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...terror are applied for heightening the Sublime. So, also, the prophet Habakkuk, in a similar passage: " He stood, and measured the earth; he " beheld, and drove asunder the nations. The ever" lasting mountains were scattered; the perpetual " hills did bow; his ways are everlasting.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...Q. What descriptions in the Scriptures excel in the sublime ? A. The descriptions of the Deity.* * " He stood and measured the earth : he beheld, " and...perpetual hills did " bow ; his ways are everlasting. The mountains « saw thee, and they trembled ; the overflowing of Q,. What passage from Moses is mentioned... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...breath of thy nostrils.' M hen the Holy One alighted upon Mount Sinai, ' his glory covered the heavens ; he stood and measured the earth : he beheld and drove...perpetual hills did bow ;. his ways are everlasting.' Then the prophet ' saw the tents of Cushan in afliiction, and the curtains of the land of Midian did... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 156 pages
...Scriptures excel in the sublime ? A. The descriptions of the Deity.* * " He stood and measured the esrth : he beheld, " and drove asunder the nations ; and the...perpetual hills did " bow ; his ways are everlasting. The mountains " saw thee. and they trembled ; the overflowing of Q, What passage from Moses is mentioned... | |
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Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting. 
