Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? "
The Adventurer - Page 26
edited by - 1823
Full view - About this book

Considerations Upon War, Upon Cruelty in General: And Religious Cruelty in ...

1758 - 508 pages
...whom will ye liken God? or what " likenefs will ye compare unto him ? Who " hath meafured the waters in the hollow of " his hand ? and meted out heaven with a " fpan, and comprehended the duft of the " earth in a meafure, and weighed the moun" tains in fcales,...
Full view - About this book

Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin ...

Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 pages
...fplendor, are the divine power and wifdom reprefented in ffaiab xl. 12? " Who hath * meafured the waters in the hollow of his hand, * and meted out heaven with a fpan, and com* prehended the duft of the earth in a meafure, 11 and weighed the mountains in fcales,...
Full view - About this book

Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 5

1785 - 772 pages
...do not only tnmble, a» in Homer* but ' are melted lublimc inquiry ? ' Who hath meaiured the waters in the hollow of his hand? and meted out heaven with a fpan, and comprehended the duft of the earth in a meafure, and weighed the mounu'ms.in fcalcs, and...
Full view - About this book

An Exposition of the Creed, Volume 1

John Pearson - 1797 - 632 pages
...hath bound the -waters in a garment ? who hath eJlabliJhed all the ends of the earth ? who but God ? Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a fpan, and comprehended the dttft of the earth in a meajure ? who but he ? Thus then may he be called...
Full view - About this book

Sermons, tr. by R. Robinson (H. Hunter)

Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 304 pages
...the everlasting God ? 'The prophet's notions of God are diffused through alt the verses of the text. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his...span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure ? Who hath weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Behold the nations...
Full view - About this book

The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 24

British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...infinite Mind can be expressed, adequately to the dignity of the subject, but in the following mariner ? ' Whither shall I go from thy presence ? If I climb...the hills in a balance?' Produce me, Terentianus, «ny image or description in Plato himself, so truly .elevated and divine ! Where did these barbarians...
Full view - About this book

The Meditations of a Recluse: Chiefly on Religious Subjects

John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...mode of existence of the Supreme Being, must acknowledge who it is that 41 has measured the waters in the hollow of " his hand, and meted out heaven..."earth in a measure; and weighed the " mountains in a scale, and the hills in a " balance. Behold the nations," proceeds the sublime Isaiah, " are as a...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon...: To which is Prefixed an ..., Volume 1

John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 636 pages
...purpofe, the fortieth chapter of Ifaiah, from the izth verfe and onward. " Who hath meafured the waters in the hollow of his '' hand, and meted out heaven with a fpan, and compre" hended the dull of the earth in a meafure, and weighed " the mountains in fcales,...
Full view - About this book

Select British Classics, Volume 20

1803 - 240 pages
...nothing, and vanity, introduced making the following sublime enquiry ! " Wrho hath measured the ,waters in the " hollow of his hand, and meted out Heaven...description in Plato himself, so truly elevated and divine ! WThere did these barbarians learn to speak of God, in terms that alone appear worthy of him? How...
Full view - About this book

Sermons Translated from the Original French of the Late Rev. James ..., Volume 1

Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1803 - 422 pages
...prophet, weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance .that God, who measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span, Isa. xl. 12. that God, who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and considereth the inhabitants thereof...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF