| Light - 1838 - 298 Seiten
...connexion with colours, another object cannot fail to be remembered. " Look," says the son of Sirach, " upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it ; very...the brightness thereof: it compasseth the heavens with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it." The Hebrews used a word to... | |
| Andrew Preston Peabody - 1840 - 184 Seiten
...At the commandment of the Holy One they all stand in their order, and never faint in their watches. Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it...it is in the brightness thereof. It compasseth the heaven with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it. He maketh the snow to... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1840 - 444 Seiten
...connexion with colours, another object cannot fail to be remembered. " Look," says the son of Sirach, " upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it ; very...the brightness thereof : it compasseth the heavens with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it." The Hebrews used a word to... | |
| Henry Edward J. Howard (hon.) - 1840 - 340 Seiten
...son of Sirach speaks in such high terms of merited admiration. " Look upon the rainbow," he says, " and praise Him that made it : very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof: it compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it." * The rainbow... | |
| Gilbert White - 1840 - 400 Seiten
...unaffected ease ; Each nameless grace, and ev'ry power to please. November }, 1763. ON THE RAINBOW. Look upon the Rainbow, and praise him that made it : very beautiful it iu the brightness thereof. — Eccles. xliii. 11. Ox morning or on evening cloud impress'd, Bent in... | |
| THOMAS WEMYSS - 1840 - 560 Seiten
...skies. And from his half till'd field the labourer flies." " Look upon the rainbow, and praise Him who made it, Very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof; It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, And the hands of the Most High have bended it." There is a reference... | |
| Thomas Wemyss - 1840 - 536 Seiten
...skies. And from his half till'd field the labourer flies." " Look upon the rainbow, and praise Him who made it, Very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof; It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, And the hands of the Most High have bended it." There is a reference... | |
| Mark Hopkins - 1841 - 78 Seiten
...years ago, upon the mind of one who had no theory to maintain? — "Look upon the rainbow," says he, "and praise Him that made it : very beautiful it is...brightness thereof. It compasseth the heavens about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it." How apparently instantaneous, yet... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1845 - 644 Seiten
...form, and decked it with all the pride of colours. " Look upon the rainbow," says the son of Sirach,* and praise Him that made it : very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof. It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it." To this grand... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1845 - 608 Seiten
...form, and decked it with all the pride of colours. " Look upon the rainbow," says the son of Sirach,* and praise Him that made it : very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof. It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Most High have bended it." To this grand... | |
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