The Omnipresence of the Supreme Being. A Seatonian Prize PoemPrinted at the University Press, by J. Smith; and sold by Deighton & Sons, Cambridge; and Hatchard, London, 1821 - 34 páginas |
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... voice that mortals cannot hear ; A still small voice amid the storm's career ; " Thus far ! no farther ! here thy proud waves stay ! " * They know that voice , and instant they obey . 145 150 155 160 * Job xxxviii . 8. " Who shut up the ...
... voice that mortals cannot hear ; A still small voice amid the storm's career ; " Thus far ! no farther ! here thy proud waves stay ! " * They know that voice , and instant they obey . 145 150 155 160 * Job xxxviii . 8. " Who shut up the ...
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... voice to yield The health it needed to the fainting field . 175 180 for it my decreed place , and set bars and doors , and said , Hitherto shalt thou come , but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ? " * Genesis viii ...
... voice to yield The health it needed to the fainting field . 175 180 for it my decreed place , and set bars and doors , and said , Hitherto shalt thou come , but no farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ? " * Genesis viii ...
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... voice of universal praise ? Lo ! as I speak , at Mem'ry's call appears The length'ning vista of forgotten years . Dimly I see upon the Eastern skies Cities long fall'n , and fanes , and altars rise : 265 * Psalm xix . 4. " Their line is ...
... voice of universal praise ? Lo ! as I speak , at Mem'ry's call appears The length'ning vista of forgotten years . Dimly I see upon the Eastern skies Cities long fall'n , and fanes , and altars rise : 265 * Psalm xix . 4. " Their line is ...
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... voice ambiguous to the ear ? Or could so bright her radiant skirts appear , Nor yet betray her Author , and declare How passing - bright the Being shrouded there ? But hark ! a voice that on the whisp'ring wind Breathes the dark ...
... voice ambiguous to the ear ? Or could so bright her radiant skirts appear , Nor yet betray her Author , and declare How passing - bright the Being shrouded there ? But hark ! a voice that on the whisp'ring wind Breathes the dark ...
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... voice had breath'd in mortal ear , That bade Creation's myst'ries disappear ; And while the reign of evil seem'd to throw Doubt on the presence of a God below , 385 390 Show'd that on worlds like this God cannot be 395 But with those ...
... voice had breath'd in mortal ear , That bade Creation's myst'ries disappear ; And while the reign of evil seem'd to throw Doubt on the presence of a God below , 385 390 Show'd that on worlds like this God cannot be 395 But with those ...
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The Omnipresence of the Supreme Being. A Seatonian Prize Poem Edward Bishop Elliott Vista completa - 1821 |
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all-beauteous altar angry Athens bade beams beauty birth blest breath Breath'd Bright morning-stars brow Brucker causâ Cicero cornice Creation's creatures crown'd cùm dark datam declare Deity Demiurge Deum Deus dicere divinam doctrine earth Epicurean Epicurus Eternal ev'ry fair fall'n frieze hæc hand heav'n heaven Job xxxviii light mala mind mortal Muses Naturâ Deorum Nature Nature's neque potest neque vult night nihil o'er omnia omnibus Parthenon pediment pervading philosophers Plato Pleiades Poem possit presence Psalm quæ quàm quod radiant rapture rationibus rebus restless rise roll round SEATON'S sentit Seraphic Socrates soul speak Spirit Stoics stubborn sublime Superstition tantâ temple Thee thou Timæus TRINITY COLLEGE turn'd Twill universe veil'd voice vult et potest whelming billows whence γαρ δε δια δοκω Εικονα εν εστιν κοσμος μοι Ου ουδ ουδεν Ούτος παραδειγμα περι τουτον χρονος
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Página 20 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Página 34 - I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I), who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures...
Página 9 - 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...
Página 34 - At this moment, painful as my reflections were, the extraordinary beauty of a small moss in fructification irresistibly caught my eye. I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration.
Página 25 - CONTRIVANCE, if established, appears to me to prove every thing which we wish to prove. Amongst other things it proves the personality of the Deity, as distinguished from what is sometimes called nature...
Página 20 - And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty...
Página 34 - ... admiration. Can that Being (thought I), who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures formed after his own image? — surely not ! Reflections like these, would not allow me to despair. I started up, and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled forwards, assured that relief was at hand ; and I was not disappointed.
Página 25 - The acts of a mind prove the existence of a mind ; and in whatever a mind resides, is a person. The seat of intellect is a person.
Página 6 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun : which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.
Página 30 - Deus, inquit Epicurus, aut vult tollere mala, et non potest; aut potest et non vult; aut neque vult, neque potest; aut et vult et potest. Si vult et non potest imbecillis est, quod in Deum non cadit.