 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pagina’s
...indeed, And for a time insure to his lov'd land The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more...remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chas'd them up to heaven. Their ashes flew—- No marble tells us whither.... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (DD.) - 1839 - 688 pagina’s
...indeed, And fur a time ensure, to his lov'd land The sweets of liberty and equal laws. Hut Martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. COWPEH. BISHOP HOOPER. Jonx HOOPER student and graduate in the university of Oxford, after the study... | |
 | 1839 - 678 pagina’s
...some other care of him, this excellent person sunk under the burden, and died there also." He died, " In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar and to antieipate the skies : Yet few remember him." COWPER. Those who wish for a more extended account of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pagina’s
...indeed, And for a tune insure to his loved laud The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed I n confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to... | |
 | Protestant association - 1840 - 302 pagina’s
...a strife, may earn indeed, And for a time insure, to his loved land The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martvrs struggle for a brighter prize,...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Jet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame. And chased them... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 358 pagina’s
...indeed, And for a time ensure, to his loved land The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more...immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, VOL. II. U To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution... | |
 | 1869 - 406 pagina’s
...treasure by the heroic and death-daring fidelity to conscience of God loving men. Their " blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim...immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free." This series of sixpenny books aims at the reproduction and illustration of the truths and principles... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pagina’s
...indeed, 715 And, for a time, ensure to his lov'd land The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more...blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pagina’s
...testimony of Jesus Christ." " Their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our'claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies." Honour to the memory of those who earnestly contended, and courageously died for the truth in that... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1842 - 348 pagina’s
...unto him who seeketh his happiness apart from thee ! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER IV. -Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them... | |
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Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies. 
