Switzerland and the Swiss Churches: Being Notes of a Short Tour, and Notices of the Principal Religious Bodies in that CountryJ. Maclehose, 1846 - 336 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 104 - And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
الصفحة 103 - He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
الصفحة 104 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD!
الصفحة 282 - ... righteousness, and peace, and joy, in the Holy Ghost.
الصفحة 236 - For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse : for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
الصفحة 102 - Hedged in by impassable barriers which fix limits to its movements, it yields groaning to its fate, and still travels forward, seamed with the scars of many a conflict with opposing obstacles. All this while, although wasting, it is renewed by an unseen power; it evaporates, but is not consumed.
الصفحة 102 - Poets and philosophers have delighted to compare the course of human life to that of a river ; perhaps a still apter simile might be found in the history of a glacier. Heaven-descended in its origin, it yet takes its mould and conformation from the hidden womb of the mountains which brought it forth.
الصفحة 96 - ... 680 dixit, et e curru saltum dedit ocius arvis, perque hostes, per tela ruit, maestamque sororem deserit, ac rapido cursu media agmina rumpit. ac veluti montis saxum de vertice praeceps cum ruit, avulsum vento, seu turbidus imber proluit, aut annis solvit sublapsa vetustas ; fertur in abruptum magno mons...
الصفحة 103 - Having at length attained its greatest width and extension, commanding admiration by its beauty and power, waste predominates over supply. The vital springs begin to fail. It stoops into an attitude of decrepitude — it drops the burdens, one by one, which it hart borne so proudly aloft — its dissolution is inevitable.
الصفحة 69 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.