| 1839 - 694 pages
...verse, there is nothing stiff or constrained. I remember a glorious proof of this remark. "... But when God commands to take the trumpet, And blow a dolorous or thrilling blast, It rests not with man's will what he shall say, Or what he shall conceal." Was ever... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 444 pages
...chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a...man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal This I foresee, that should the church be brought under heavy oppression, and God have given me ability... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 686 pages
...chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a...or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what ho shall вaу, or what he shall conceal. *** This I foresee, that should the church be brought under... | |
| 1844 - 472 pages
...would willingly have framed his measures to the concords of peace ; but, to use again his own matehless speech, ' when God commands to take the trumpet, and...what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.' The voice of duty, and the testimony of conscience, were to him the command of God ; he did take the trumpet,... | |
| 1849 - 600 pages
...wert dumb as a beast." He believed that " when God commands to take the trumpet and blow a sonorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal." The love of truth and liberty, the sense of responsibility, the consciousness of power entrusted to him... | |
| 1827 - 516 pages
...chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a...will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. * * * This I foresee, that should the Church be brought under heavy oppression, and God have given... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1845 - 436 pages
...chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a...man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal This I foresee, that should the church be brought under heavy oppression, and God have given me ability... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 552 pages
...happiness. lint when God commands to take the trumpet, nnd Mow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lieл not in man's will what he shall say: or what he shall concenl." Milton then describee, ' in language scarcely less remarkable for its power than for its... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. If he shall think... | |
| 1878 - 300 pages
...men are firmly convinced that conscience, honour, and credit, are all in one interest. — Steele. When God commands to take the trumpet and blow a dolorous...man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal. — Milton. I once read an inscription over the gate of a cemetery; the words were these — " They... | |
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