Twelve Years in America: Being Observations on the Country, the People, Institutions and Religion : with Notices of Slavery and the Late War,and Facts and Incidents Illustrative of Ministerial Life and Labor in Illinois : with Notes of Travel Through the United States and Canada

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Hamilton, Adams, 1867 - 440 strani

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Stran 244 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Stran 377 - It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying. For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever...
Stran 407 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Stran 259 - And hung his bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, The sound of many waters ; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks.
Stran 392 - Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets; She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Stran 377 - For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever : that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
Stran 101 - Happy art thou, O Israel : Who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, The shield of thy help, And who is the sword of thy excellency ! And thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; And thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Stran 366 - For all flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Stran 392 - She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Stran 50 - I stand in an open plain. I turn my face to the north, to the south, to the east, and to the west ; and on all sides behold the blue circle of the heavens girdling around me.

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