 | John Wilson - English fiction - 1822 - 326 pages
...three children about to be baptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell,—but each heart knew the hour and observed it for there...the hours passing by them in sunshine and shadow. fc command a long stretching vista, seemingly ed and shut up at both extremities by the coalesj cliffs.... | |
 | John Wilson - Scotland - 1822 - 450 pages
...three children about to be baptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell,—but each heart knew the hour and observed it; for there are a hundred sun-dials among the hills, 1 woods, moors, and fields, and the shepherd and the peasant see the hours passing by them in sunshine... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...had ever built to Deity. Here, too, were three children about to be baptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell, — but each...hours passing by them in sunshine and shadow. The churcb in which they were assembled, was hewn, by God's hand, 01* of the eternal rocks. A river rolled... | |
 | John Wilson - 1823 - 452 pages
...had ever built to Deity. Here, too, were three children about to be baptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell, — but each...for there are a hundred sun-dials among the hills, 1 woods, moors, and fields, and the shepherd and the peasant see the hours passing by them in sunshine... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...ever built to the Deity. Here, too, were three children ahout to be haptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell, — but each...heart knew the hour and observed it; for there are a bundred sun-dials among the hills, woods, moors, and fields, and the shepherd and the peasant see the... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...had ever built to Deity. Here, too, were three children about to be baptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell, — but each...God's hand, out of the eternal rocks. A river rolled ks way through a mighty chasm of cliffs, several hundred feet high, of which the one side presented... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...had ever built to Deity. Here, too, were three children about to be baptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell, — but each...woods, moors, and fields, and the shepherd and the peasants see the hours passing by them in sunshine and shadow. The church in which they were assembled,... | |
 | Elocution - 1847 - 312 pages
...had ever built to Deity. Here, too, were three children about to be baptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell, — but each...among the hills, woods, moors, and fields, and the shepherds and the peasants see the hours passing by them in sunshine and shadow. The church in which... | |
 | Elocution - 1848 - 310 pages
...had ever built to Deity. Here, too, were three children about to be baptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell, — but each...a hundred sun-dials among the hills, woods, moors, arid fields, and the shepherds and the peasants see the hours passing by them in sunshine and shadow.... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...had ever built to Deity. Here, too, were three children about to be baptized. The congregation had not assembled to the toll of the bell, — but each...among the hills, woods, moors, and fields, and the shepherds and the peasants see the hours passing by them in sunslu'ne and shadow. The church in which... | |
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Sabbath-day, — and a small congregation of about a hundred souls had met for Divine service in a place of worship more magnificent than any temple that human hands had ever built to Deity. Here, too, were three children about to be baptized. 
