| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...new song, and wake the pastoral reed. PROVIDENCE. (THOMSON.) -THERE is a power Unseen, that rules th' illimitable world, That guides its motions, from the...brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould ;' While man, who madly deems himself the lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependance.... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Providenct. THOMSON. — — THERE is a Pow'r Unseen, that rules th' illimitable world, That guides 'tis motions from the brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould ; While man, who madly deems himself the lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependence.... | |
| 1823 - 542 pages
...hearts are in his hands, and all events under his control. " His is that power Unseen that rules th' illimitable world, That guides its motions, from the...brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould; While man, who madly deems himself the lord / Of all, is nought but weakness and dependence."... | |
| George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...description of Providence is finely true and imposing: — There is a power Unseen, that rules the illimitable world, That guides its motions, from the...brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould ; While man, who madly deems himself the lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependance.... | |
| George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...following description of Providence is finely true and imposing:— There is a power Unseen, that rules the illimitable world, That guides its motions, from the...brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould ; While man, who madly deems himself the lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependance.... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 856 pages
...; And some with whom compared, your inserí tribes Are but the beings of a Summer's day. Thornton. &Ӛ c r v 3 x ^Y~) ~i T K A 8Q } 1 Ť O p \ U RSр IJ dépendance. This sacred truth, by sure experience taught, Thou must have learnt, when wandering all... | |
| Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...satisfaction to the mind, and to inspire in it a conviction that " There is a pow'r Unseen, that rules th' illimitable world, That guides its motions, from the...brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould ; While man, who madly deems himself the lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependance.... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 772 pages
...thoughts, that teaeh us what we are, And tame the pride of man. There is a Power Unseen that rules the' illimitable world, That guides its motions, from the...brightest star, To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould : While man, who madly deems himself the lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependenee.... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...he remembers it, And thinks upon the suffering mariner. 86. There is a Pow'r Unseen, that rules th' illimitable world, That guides its motions from the...brightest star To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould ; While man, who madly deems himself the lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependence.... | |
| James Thomson - 1850 - 800 pages
...thoughts, that teaeh us what we are, And tame the pride of man. There is a Power Unseen that rules the' illimitable world, That guides its motions, from the...brightest star. To the least dust of this sin-tainted mould ; While man, who madly deems himself the lord Of all, is nought but weakness and dependenee.... | |
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