| 1813 - 662 Seiten
...recalled, when wanted. * Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts, from the visions of the night, when deep...bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; and the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, hut I could not discern the form thereof: an... | |
| 1814 - 564 Seiten
...recalled when wanted. " Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts, from the visions of the night, when deep...bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; and the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof : an... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1815 - 362 Seiten
...uncertainty of the thing described : In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me and trembling, which made all...mine eyes ; there was silence ; and I heard a voice, — Shall mortal man be more Just than God? We are first prepared with the utmost solemnity for the... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 Seiten
...In thoughts from the visions of the " night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon rne, and " trembling, which made all my bones to shake....mine eyes ; there was silence ; and I heard a voice — Shall "mortal man be more just than God ?"f (Job iv. 15.) no ideas, it is plain, are so sublime... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1815 - 434 Seiten
...fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my 125 face, the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still,...mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice."* There are not, perhaps, many instances of relations delivered in language more truly sublime as well... | |
| Robert Morehead - 1816 - 492 Seiten
...Now a thing was " secretly brought to me," says Eliphaz, " and mine ear received a little thereof. " In thoughts from the visions of the " night, when...was silence ; and I heard a voice, " saying, Shall mortal man be more just ? Shall a man be more pure '.* In the first place, jny brethren, we are l^d... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1819 - 550 Seiten
...passage of the book of Job : " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when " deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, " and trembling, which made...not " discern the form thereof; an image was before " my eyes ; there was silence ; and I heard a voice " — Shall mortal man be more just than God *... | |
| 1834 - 614 Seiten
...indistinctness rousing the imagination, is finely depicted in Job iv. 14. Eliphaz describes it thus — "Fear came upon me, and trembling which made all my...still, but I could not discern the form thereof.'' The senses, in this description, are but slightly affected ; the eye could not discern any specific... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 Seiten
...passage of the book of Job: " In thoughts from the visions of the night, when " deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, " and trembling, which made...not " discern the form thereof; an image was before " my eyes; there was silence ; and I heard a voice " — Shall mortal man be more just than God * ?"... | |
| 1821 - 506 Seiten
...modern writers can produce a similar instance of the sublime, equal to the following passage of Job. "In thoughts from the visions "of the night, when...of my flesh stood up ; it stood still, but I could Bot discern the form thereof; an image was before mine eyes. There was silence; and I heard a voice,... | |
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