 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pagina’s
...says of the poetic gift, " to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of public virtue and civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind,...glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's abnlghtiness." What can approach nearer to inspired composition than the following sublime prayer:... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 pagina’s
...abilities are the inspired gifts of God, * See Lecture HI. rarely bestowed ; and are of power to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses... | |
 | Alfred Augustus Fry - 1838 - 68 pagina’s
...some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to Imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 334 pagina’s
...gifts of God, * SM Lecture TO. rarely bestowed ; and are of power to imbreed and cherish in a grejrt people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to...glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightmess, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 540 pagina’s
...bestowed ! and are of power to inbreed and cherish in a great people the si•i•iK of virtue and civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune."— MILTON. * NV e just now remember — but, trusting to our memory, cannot quote correctly — a fine... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 1072 pagina’s
...they be revered and esteemed amongst us ! " They are of power," to use his own words, " to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility." They will be lost, only with our language : — the tide of his song will cease to flow, only with... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 540 pagina’s
...every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and NO. vII. vOL. Iv. 2 cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and...glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightincss, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839 - 554 pagina’s
...every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and NO. VII. VOL. IV. 2 cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and...in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty bymns the throne and equipage of God's almightincss, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1836 - 676 pagina’s
...bestowed, but yet to some in every nation, and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue...perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in a right tune." A learned order is moreover, one of the conservative powers of a nation, necessary in... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1839 - 844 pagina’s
...a country. " These noble studies," as Milton has said of kindred pursuits, "are of power to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility." They interpret the prophetic voices of the past, and by clothing each familiar spot. each rain, and... | |
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... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune... 
