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" Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution. "
Letters on Religious Subjects: Written by Divers Friends, Deceased - Page 59
1805 - 287 pages
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The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters, Volume 1

William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 376 pages
...works of man, and man himself together with his works, and the ocean seeming to overleap the command, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seemed to bespeak a decay, and forebode,...
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Ship and Shore: Or, Leaves from the Journal of a Cruise to the Levant

Walter Colton - Mediterranean Sea - 1835 - 332 pages
...Being who " rides on the tempest and directs the storm," and who can say to the chainless ocean, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be staid." It was past mid-day when the rock of Lisbon broke from a mass of clouds that hung...
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Ship and Shore: Or, Leaves from the Journal of a Cruise to the Levant

Walter Colton - Mediterranean Sea - 1835 - 344 pages
...Being who " rides on the tempest and directs the storm," and who can say to the chainless ocean, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be staid." . It was past mid-day when the rock of Lisbon broke from a mass of clouds that hung...
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Lectures to Young People in Manufacturing Villages

Dorus Clarke - Sermons, English - 1836 - 228 pages
...entirely died away, a rectified public sentiment has reared an effectual barrier against its power, saying, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." You may labor, then, for a general and thorough reformation of morals, with this...
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The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the ...

William Cowper - Poets, English - 1836 - 384 pages
...works of man, and man himself together with his works, and the ocean seeming to overleap the command, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seemed to bespeak a decay, and forebode,...
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Letters. Papers in the Connoisseur. Fragments of a commentary on Paradise lost

William Cowper - 1837 - 380 pages
...works of man, and man himself together with his works, and the ocean seeming to overleap the command, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps,...
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The Works of Joseph Hall: Practical works

Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 564 pages
...confine his desires; and that, to no over-lar1*e compass : and must say to them, as God doth to the sea, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed; Job. xxxviii. 1 1. What a cumber it is, for a man to have too much ! to be in the...
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Memoir of mrs. Louisa A. Lowrie (compiled by A.G. Fairchild).

Louisa Ann Lowrie - 1838 - 292 pages
...darkness a swaddling-band for it ; and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no further : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ? Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days, and caused the day-spring to know...
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The Church Magazine, Volumes 6-7

Great Britain - 1844 - 582 pages
...erected an impassable barrier to Gallic ambition, and said even to the deluge of Imperial power, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Nor were splendid genius .heroic virtue, gigantic wickedness, wanting on the opposite...
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Unitarianism Defended: A Series of Lectures

Unitarianism - 1839 - 966 pages
...upon the lips. The tide of thought and liberty moves' onward with majestic swell, and no one can say " Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be staid." Whatever there be in wealth, in power, in glory, in ambition, that desires triumphant...
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