 Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution.  The Presbyterian Magazine - Page 117edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Walter Colton - 1835 - 332 pages
...Being who " rides on the tempest and directs the storm," and who can say to the chainless ocean, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be staid." It was past mid-day when the rock of Lisbon broke from a mass of clouds that hung... | |
 | Walter Colton - 1835 - 344 pages
...Being who " rides on the tempest and directs the storm," and who can say to the chainless ocean, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be staid." . It was past mid-day when the rock of Lisbon broke from a mass of clouds that hung... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 376 pages
...works of man, and man himself together with his works, and the ocean seeming to overleap the command, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seemed to bespeak a decay, and forebode,... | |
 | Robert Boyle - 1835 - 350 pages
...maintains it therein, and is able not only to set bounds to the raging sea, and effectually say to it, ' Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,' but what is far more, so to curb and moderate those stupendously rapid motions of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 380 pages
...works of man, and man himself together with his works, and the ocean seeming to overleap the command, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps,... | |
 | Dorus Clarke - 1836 - 228 pages
...died away, a rectified public sentiment has reared an effectual barrier against its power, saying, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." You may labor, then, for a general and thorough reformation of morals, with this... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 384 pages
...works of man, and man himself together with his works, and the ocean seeming to overleap the command, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seemed to bespeak a decay, and forebode,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 564 pages
...confine his desires; and that, to no over-lar1*e compass : and must say to them, as God doth to the sea, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed; Job. xxxviii. 1 1. What a cumber it is, for a man to have too much ! to be in the... | |
 | Louisa Ann Lowrie - 1838 - 292 pages
...darkness a swaddling-band for it ; and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ? Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days, and caused the day-spring to know... | |
 | 1839 - 312 pages
...the circumstances thereof. I believe the devil believes in predestination about everything. "Thus far shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." It is a wonder how the devil can therefore set men on to vilify predestination. But here is the old serpent's... | |
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