 But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what «he shall say, or what he shall conceal.  The Friend - Page 53edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 228 pages
...oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal." Milton then describes, in language scarcely less remarkable for its power than for its poetical fervour,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own happiness. " But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say or what he shall conceal. If he shall think... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. If he shall think... | |
 | Charles Valentine De Grice - Authors, English - 1836 - 322 pages
...ambitious motive. When God, he said, commands to take up the trumpet, and blow a jarring or dolorous blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. This was the reason he gave for his attacks upon the Episcopacy. It was to appease the restless calls... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. 4. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a dolorous or jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal. If he shall think... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 490 pages
...man it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands;* * * but when God commands to take the trumpet and blow...blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say and what he shall conceal."* That my complaints, both in this and in my former Lay Sermon, concerning... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Christianity - 1839 - 472 pages
...man it must in nature needs be a hateful thing to be the displeaser and molester of thousands ;* * * but when God commands to take the trumpet and blow...blast, it lies not in man's will what he shall say and what he shall conceal."* That my complaints, both in this and in my former Lay Sermon, concerning... | |
 | 1839 - 694 pages
...form of verse, there is nothing stiff or constrained. I remember a glorious proof of this remark. "... But when God commands to take the trumpet, And blow a dolorous or thrilling blast, It rests not with man's will what he shall say, Or what he shall conceal." Was ever... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1843 - 686 pages
...his chief intended business to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happiness. But when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow...or a jarring blast, it lies not in man's will what ho shall вaу, or what he shall conceal. *** This I foresee, that should the church be brought under... | |
 | Theology - 1844 - 472 pages
...willingly have framed his measures to the concords of peace ; but, to use again his own matehless speech, ' when God commands to take the trumpet, and blow a...will what he shall say, or what he shall conceal.' The voice of duty, and the testimony of conscience, were to him the command of God ; he did take the... | |
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