 | First Church of Christ (Hartford, Conn.) - 1883 - 258 pàgines
...his emigration, and that of Cotton and other eminent ministers suggested those well known lines : " Religion stands on tip-toe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." In the inventories at the death of some of the ministers, articles of luxury are noted, as in the will... | |
 | George Herbert - 1883 - 262 pàgines
...proportions be assigned To these diminishings, as is between The spacious world and Jewry to be seen. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. When height of malice, and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcrafts, and distrusts, (The marks... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1884 - 204 pàgines
...Herbert must have had a kindly feeling for America," she said, " Do you not remember his lines, — " ' Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand ' " ? " Yes," said he, eagerly, " and I have often thought that he had Cotton in his mind when he wrote... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1885 - 390 pàgines
...auspicate all our proceedings in America with the old Church cry, " Sursum corda." George Herbert wrote: " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." May I try to show that every fact of your early history emphasizes the religious prophecies which thus... | |
 | George Herbert - 1885 - 370 pàgines
...proportions be assigned To these diminishings as is between The spacious world and Jewry to be seen. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. When height of malice and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcrafts, and distrusts — The marks... | |
 | Henry Offley Wakeman - 1887 - 248 pàgines
...so well was leaving England, though possibly to bear still more glorious fruits in the unknown West. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. If we inquire where the strength of this great movement lay, why with so much of pride, of assurance,... | |
 | Uriah Smith - 1887 - 328 pàgines
...expected. George Herbert in a poem entitled "The Church Militant," published in 1633, said : — " Eeligion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand." — Id. Of these prophecies, some are now wholly fulfilled, * These quotations are from an article... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1888 - 306 pàgines
...that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness." Even saintly Herbert wrote that, — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the 'Merican strand." One of the most homely and pathetic scenes of this exodus is that portrayed in "The... | |
 | George Herbert - 1891 - 282 pàgines
...proportions be assigned To these diminishings, as is between The spacious world and Jewry to be seen. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. When height of malice, and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinning, witchcrafts, and distrusts, (The marks... | |
 | John Marcus Dickey - 1892 - 472 pàgines
...TURNS TO FREEDOM S LAND. GEOKCE HERBERT, an English poet. Born at Montgomery, Wales, 1593; died, 1632. Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF COLUMBUS. ANTONIO HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, an eminent Spanish historian. Born... | |
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Religion stands on tip-toe in our land Ready to pass to the American strand. 
