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" In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern... "
The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ... - Page 87
by Ossian - 1805
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - English language - 1817 - 516 pages
...joined with an awful obscurity. We may see this fully exemplified in the following noble passage of the book of Job. " In thoughts from the visions of the night, " when deep sleep fallcth upon men, fear came upon me, and trembling_, " which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit...
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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Volumes 1-2

1818 - 948 pages
...scatter«! abroad. 12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little (hereof. 13 r they are most rebellious. on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 1 5 Then a spirit passed...
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Churchman's Magazine, Volume 1

1821 - 506 pages
...ancient nor modern writers can produce a similar instance of the sublime, equal to the following passage of Job. "In thoughts from the visions "of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before...
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Sermons on Important Subjects

Willis Harris - Methodist Church - 1821 - 344 pages
...transactions of that day, he should have adopted the awful language in which Eliphaz rehearsed his vision, "In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, arid trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a Spirit passed before...
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Scripture Antiquities: Or, A Compendius Summary of the Religious ...

John Jones (Curate of Waterbeach.) - Bible - 1821 - 322 pages
...revealing the divine will was by visions and dreams, or, as it is elegantly expressed by the Temanite, " in thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on man." Job iv, 13. Such was Abraham's dream, in which Jehovah foretold the bondage of his posterity...
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The Poems of Ossian, Volume 2

Hugh Campbell - 1822 - 624 pages
...around. Many were his words to Oscar. — " He slowly vanished like a mist that melts on the " snnny hill." To appearances of this kind, we can find no...the visions of the night, " when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, " and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. " Then a spirit passed...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

1822 - 600 pages
...morbid oppression in which all this phantasma originates, is that of Eliphaz, in the fourth chapter of the book of Job. " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, tear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face....
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Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettres

Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1822 - 164 pages
...darkness, round Circles his throne t We may see this fully exemplified in the following noble passage from the book of Job. " In thoughts " from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth "onmen, fear came upen me, and tremHmg, which " made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed "...
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 12

1848 - 704 pages
...speaks thus to Job : " 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 sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...the mist of Lano, that brings death to the people. His sword is a green meteor, half-extinguished. His face is without form, and dark. He sighed thrice...the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before...
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