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...Jacob, 104 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS. his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. Praise ye the LORD."* " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you...

...filled the imagination of the poet Coleridge, when he thus addressed the glaciers of Mont Blanc — " Ye ice-falls ! ye, that from the mountain's brow Adown...methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amidst their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the...

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...[ftem. 3.] A few good books, well chosen, are of more use than a great library. Motionless torrents I silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon ?— Coleridge. If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would bo as tedious as to work. —...

...Jacob, 104 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS. his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. Praise ye the LORD."* " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, metbinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Who made you glorious...

...cataracts, rises like a cloud of incense from the earth ? — " Motionless torrents 1 silent cataracts I Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen, full moon 1 Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers, Of loveliest blue, spread garlands...

...life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam * Aod who commanded (and the silence came) Here let the...methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stopped at once, amidst their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts? Who made you glorious as the Gates...

...numbers, ' with its flowers of loveliest blue.' " We here insert a short extract from this " Hymn :" " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious...