 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 446 oldal
...When it would attempt to go beyond its prescribed limit, he says to it, as to the waters of the ocean, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. All this shall be fully verified and declared by the last issue of things ; when we shall be... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1808 - 326 oldal
...boundaries to the sea, and obliged this impetuous element to respect the commands of its Creator, who says, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. Job xxxviii. 11. We have seen him not only supersede the laws of nature, but likewise discover... | |
 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1809 - 522 oldal
...darkness a swaddling band for it, 10. And brake up for it my deereed place, and set bars and doors, 11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be staid. 12. Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ? and caused the day-spring to know . his... | |
 | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - 1809 - 512 oldal
...womb? 9. When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, i; 10. And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, ' ' 11. And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be staid.... | |
 | 1809 - 556 oldal
...boisterous waves in a thick mist, with as much ease as a nurse swaddles a new-born child j Ver. 10. And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and Joors,'] And laid it in that bed, which 1 had appointed to be broken up for it in the earth ; where,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 520 oldal
...creatures, is subjected to a law. God hedges it in as it were with a girdle of sand, saying to it, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, but no farther: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,' Job xxxviii. 1 1 . But much more are rational creatures subject to a law, seeing they are... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 468 oldal
...doors, when I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling .band for it? when I brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ?" Job xxxviii. 3, 4; 5, &c. " He that reproveth... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 520 oldal
...the shore, and respect on the beach the command of the Creator, who said to the sea, Hitherto shall thou come, but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed, Job xxxviii. 11.; when he attends to all these marvellous works, he will readily conclude,... | |
 | 1815 - 614 oldal
...the womb F 9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, 10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shall thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ? 12... | |
 | 1816 - 644 oldal
...shut up the sea with doors? / made the cloud the garment thereof; and thick darkness the swaddling band for it — and brake up for it my decreed place-<—...there not a beautiful coincidence between this passage and the following lines from Milton, " And Mid — thus far estend— thui far thy bounds — This... | |
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Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a... 
