 These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God rarely bestowed, but yet to some, though most abuse, 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...  Educational Essays - Pagina 222door Edward Thomson - 1856 - 412 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton - 1835
...beside the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility; to allay the perturbations of the mind,...God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he VOL. I. G suffers to be wrought with high providence in bis church ; to sing victorious agonies of... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835
...of power,—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—to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1836
...beside the office of a pulpit, 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 a right tune." A learned order is moreover, one of the conservative powers of a nation, necessary in... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837
...power," as Milton 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...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 - 324 pagina’s
...bestowed ; and are of power to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind,...to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ;... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1838 - 363 pagina’s
...besides the office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind,...to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839
...nation ; and are of power, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind,...to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith, against the enemies... | |
 | 1839
...pulpit, to imbreed and NO. vII. vOL. Iv. 2 cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind,...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... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1839
...pulpit, to imbreed and NO. VII. VOL. IV. 2 cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind,...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... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840
...nation ; and are of power, — to in breed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind,...hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness" 4'c"When I once enter upon these quotations it is difficult to know where to stop ; and though it is... | |
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