 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...the poetic gift, " to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of public virtue and civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's abnlghtiness." What can approach nearer to inspired composition than the following sublime prayer:... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...and are of power to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ; to deplore the general relapses... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 1072 pages
...office of a pulpit, to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and n hat he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 334 pages
...and are of power to imbreed and cherish in a grejrt people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightmess, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church... | |
 | Alfred Augustus Fry - 1838 - 68 pages
...office of a pulpit, to Imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1839 - 540 pages
...imbreed and NO. vII. vOL. Iv. 2 cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightincss, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - Bibliography - 1839 - 554 pages
...imbreed and NO. VII. VOL. IV. 2 cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty bymns the throne and equipage of God's almightincss, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 1836 - 676 pages
...office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in a right tune." A learned order is moreover, one of the conservative powers of a nation, necessary in... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...are of power,—to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue, and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness," $c. When I once enter upon these quotations it is difficult to know where to stop; and though it is... | |
 | 1840 - 486 pages
...and are of power to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility ; to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the...glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightinest, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in hie church... | |
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These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation : and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue... 
