 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1857 - 52 pągines
...waters, which drew the coast-lines of the mighty deep ; and it was his omnific voice which said, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." It was his all-commanding word which raised from the vast abyss earth's continents,... | |
 | William James E. Bennett - 1851 - 500 pągines
...sea, or the force of its enormous waves ? Yet it stays within its boundaries, because of Him Who said 'Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' And to show the decree imposed upon it, when it runs up on the land, it leaves a... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1851 - 400 pągines
...them; they were laid up in their appointed channels, and there the sovereign decree was imposed, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed !" " And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1853 - 518 pągines
...works of man, and man himself together with his works, and the ocean seeming to overleap the command, " 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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Jane Brabazon - 1853 - 364 pągines
...thoughtful reader ; for in them, he cannot fail to recognize the hand of HIM who saith unto the sea, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves bestayed ."* The noble Pelayo, the first king of the Asturias, full of years and honors, being... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pągines
...sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy ? Who shut up the sea with doors, and said, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" Hast thou commanded the morning, or caused the day-spring to know his place ? Hast... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 560 pągines
...works of man, and man himself together with his works, and the ocean seeming to overleap the command, " 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,... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 pągines
...Omnipotent Being who holds its waters in the ' hollow of his hand,' and who has said to its foaming surges, 'Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.' " — DICK. " The first Christian emperor may claim the honour of the first edict... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1855 - 420 pągines
...with a truth equally striking, to the troubled elements. The Almighty sets bounds to the raging ocean, saying, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." He regulates by his wisdom the intensity of the tempest, "staying his rough wind... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1855 - 436 pągines
...sake." Never again shall its foundations be overthrown by a flood. The decree shall never alter : " Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed!" And now when storms beat, and rivers are swollen, and lakes overflow, and torrents... | |
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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. 
