Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read, to doubt, or read... Jesuit Executorship: Or, Passages in the Life of a Seceder from Romanism ... - Sida 271efter Jesuit executorship - 1853Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Walter Scott - 1820 - 348 sidor
...that awful volume lies The my tery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace " To read, to fear, to hope, to pray; To lift the latch, and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been bom,Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. " Give... | |
| 1820 - 866 sidor
...that awful volume lies The mystery of mpterica! Hippicst they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the lutch, and force the way i And belter had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn."... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 544 sidor
...that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn." " Give... | |
| Walter Scott - 1824 - 408 sidor
...that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way; And better had they ne'er been born. Who read to doubt, or read to scorn." " Give... | |
| 1828 - 398 sidor
...Written by Lord Byrou, a few icccks before his death, on tfie blank leaf of a Bible.i/H til s"J ' -'•* WITHIN this awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries...grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the lateh, to force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born, Than read to doubt, or read to scorn.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 sidor
...that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! Happiest they of human race, To whom God has granted grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn." " Give... | |
| 1833 - 310 sidor
...provinces, the yew tree and the church are coeval with each other. LINES ON THE BIBLE, BV Sill WALTER SCOTT. Within this awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries...God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pruy, To lift the latch, to force the way; And hetter had they ne'er been horn Than read to doubt,... | |
| T. H. Hudson - 1839 - 338 sidor
...the scriptures," gladly receive the evidence of truth, embrace the gospel, and you may be saved. " Within this awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries...read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch and force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born, Than read to doubt, or read to scorn."» "... | |
| 1839 - 158 sidor
...perused with advantage, as well as with interest:— Within this awful volume lies The mystery of all mysteries : Happiest they of human race, To whom their...pray. To lift the latch, to force the way : And better they had ne'er been born Than read to doubt, or read to scorn. IXiNIXiN : WILLIAM WATTS. PKINTKB, CROWN... | |
| Robert Green - 1842 - 68 sidor
...saith the Lord, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my Word." " Within this awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries...hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way ; But better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn." I have written this, my... | |
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