 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 - 1843
...visited "nightly" by the " heavenly Muse," or "when morn purpled the east," and was thus emboldened "to celebrate, in glorious and lofty hymns, the throne and equipage of God's almightiness" (to use his own words), "and what He works and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843
...gift to be exclusively devoted to ihe honour and instruction of his country, and the glory of his God. "To celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightineas, and what be works. and what he enffera to be wrought with high providence in his church... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844
...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,...to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...besides the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public u almightines.H, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious... | |
 | 1827
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845
...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,...to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies... | |
 | John Milton - 1845
...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,...to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1845
...; 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 just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 372 pagina’s
...besides 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 rfight tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness,... | |
 | 1847
...altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases." He tells us that the office of the poet is " to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne...to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, and the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies... | |
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