 | 1840 - 638 pàgines
...he checks them in the height of their rage, setting bounds to their violence which they cannot pass, saying, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,'" Job xxxviii. 10, 11. With equal sovereignty, certainty, and ease, he rules over... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1840 - 918 pàgines
...erected an impassable barrier to Gallic ambition, and said even to the deluge of Imperial power, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Nor were splendid genius, heroic virtue, gigantic wickedness, awanting on the opposite... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1840 - 510 pàgines
...darkness its swaddling band, 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 staid ?" Take, then, these " thoughts that breathe and words that burn," and compress them... | |
 | Isaac McCoy - 1840 - 632 pàgines
...God 'hath broken up for our afflictions his decreed place, and hath fixed doors and bars, and said, hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' " October 18. It is just four years since I received my appointment from the board... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 340 pàgines
...which no power can freeze up, and no arm can enchain, to which He alone can give boundaries, and say, " hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," (hear, hear.) And for what was this vast highway given, but that nation should hold... | |
 | Charles Rockwell - 1842 - 440 pàgines
...that Being, who " rides upon the whirlwind and directs the storm" ; who says to the raging ocean, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." One result of our meeting for worship, in such circumstances, was, to s*how us that... | |
 | 1876 - 302 pàgines
...smiling and safe through it all. I enjoyed these words, and said them aloud to the lashing billows — "Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." They did look so proud and mighty; I only wished they could have understood the words... | |
 | Boy - 1842 - 250 pàgines
...amazing power of God, which is able to control and reduce to obedience, the raging world N of waters ! " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." These wonders of the world are, for the most part, of a fearful character; but the... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 1252 pàgines
...erected an impassable barrier to Gallic ambition, and said even to the deluge of Imperial power, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Nor were splendid genius, heroic virtue, gigantic wickedness, wanting on the opposite... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pàgines
...illimitable space, he interposes the cooling influence of the atmosphere, checks its career, and says, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Had it not pleased God to set the sand for a bound, the ocean would have overwhelmed... | |
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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. 
