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| James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1858 - 328 pages
...sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. Bishop Latimer will have him to have been a bishop, but to me that other calling would appear more... | |
| Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitt Southworth - Fiction - 1859 - 402 pages
...WOMAN ! tell me instantly and without prevarication where you've been ? " " Certainly, sir ; ' going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it ! ' " said Cap., quietly. " FLAMES AND FURIES, that is no answer at all ! Where have you been ? " roared... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1859 - 534 pages
...occupation seems, at first sight, rather an idle one, for he declares it to be nothing else but " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." . But his is no sinecure for all that, for he is busily engaged in observing the doings of men, and... | |
| John Charles Ryle (bp. of Liverpool.) - 1859 - 592 pages
...world at the beginning, by tempting Eve. This is he who is described in the book of Job as " going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." This is he whom our Lord calls " the prince of this world," a "murderer" and a "liar." This is he whom... | |
| William Henry Milburn - Authors, American - 1859 - 402 pages
...Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap." CHAPTERS FROM AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 267 CHAPTER XVIH. " GOING TO AND FRO IN THE EARTH, AND WALKING UP AND DOWN IN IT." IT had been my intention to winter in the South and bear warm weather company in its progress northward.... | |
| Israel Perkins Warren - Christian biography - 1859 - 298 pages
...his temptations. I am not mindful to keep a constant watch, remembering that the adversary is going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it, constantly drawing the feet of the unwary into his net. Oh ! how we should shun and resist him, even... | |
| James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1859 - 226 pages
...sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it. Bishop Latimer will have him to have been a bishop, but to me that other calling would appear more... | |
| William Henry Milburn - Circuit riders - 1859 - 390 pages
...the imperishable truth, " Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap." CHAPTER XYIH. " GOING TO AND FRO IN THE EARTH, AND WALKING UP AND DOWN IN IT." IT had been my intention to winter in the South and bear warm weather company in its progress northward.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...happily. The motto to the poem of Satan is taken from the Book of Job: " Whence comest thou ? From going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." And certainly Mr. Robert Montgomery has not failed to make his hero go to and fro, and walk up and... | |
| S. Clements - Spirits - 1860 - 50 pages
...only upon the assurances of such ghosts and spectres, as may chance to visit us, as they i( are going to and fro in the earth, and walking up and down in it." We are thus left without an atonement, and without a Holy Ghost, to rise by the recuperative energies... | |
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