 | Eliza Weaver Bradburn - 1828 - 158 pagina’s
...not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise ; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep: All these, with ceaseless praise, his work behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep... | |
 | William Ellis - 1829 - 610 pagina’s
...all the spells of enchantment were thrown over its varied scenes. The sentiment of the poet that— " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep," was one familiar to their minds; and it is impossible not to feel interested in a people who... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pagina’s
...not in vain ; nor think, though men were none. That heav'n would want spectators, God want praise ; Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Uotli day and night. How often, from the steep... | |
 | 1830 - 602 pagina’s
...fountain of our spiritual existence. What know we of the powers, or the extent of this mighty host? " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep." Verily there is no isolated spot in the creation, on which the human spirit can stand clear... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1830 - 408 pagina’s
...are drawn from the true and only authority for such matters, — The Bible. ON GOOD AND EVIL ANGELS. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. MII.TON, Par. Lost, B. 4tb, 1. «77. EXTRACTS FROM TIIK Fathers of the Christian Church. " Let... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1830 - 490 pagina’s
...definite or indefinite, not in respect to action, but to time. When, in the passage from Milton, " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep," he considers " walk" as indefinite, is it in regard to action ? No. " It is," says he, " because... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pagina’s
...not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1831 - 388 pagina’s
...busy day, were then calmly resting upon their beds : but the lovely scene did not want spectators— " Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise His work behold Both day and night." MILTON. Nor were the unconscious... | |
 | William Ellis - 1831 - 448 pagina’s
...and the spells of enchantment were thrown over its varied scenes. The sentiment of the poet that — "Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep," was one familiar to their minds ; and it is impossible not to feel interested in a people who... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1831 - 302 pagina’s
...scenes, with innumerable invisible beings. The beautiful verse of Milton describes their faith — ' Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen ; both when we wake and when we sleep.' What was to him, however, a momentary vision of the imagination was to them like a perpetual... | |
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