Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volúmenes3-4

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1847
 

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Página 4 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ; Once bless our human ears — If ye have power to touch our senses so ; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow ; And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 9 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Página 14 - Our vows, our prayers, we now present Before thy throne of grace ; God of our fathers ! be the God Of their succeeding race.
Página 1 - ... what king or knight, before the conquest, might be chosen in whom to lay the pattern of a Christian hero.
Página 282 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Página 93 - The scholar of the first age received into him the world around ; brooded thereon ; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him life; it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions ; it went out from him immortal thoughts. It came to him business ; it went from him poetry. It was dead fact ; now, it is quick thought.
Página 93 - The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind and uttered it again. It came into him life; it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts. It came to him business; it went from him poetry. It was dead fact; now, it is quick thought.
Página 158 - And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks, before the LORD ; but the LORD was not in the wind...
Página 21 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Página 248 - Wherefore O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, we, thy humble servants, do celebrate and make here before thy Divine majesty, with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make ; having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension ; rendering unto thee most hearty thanks, for the innumerable benefits procured unto us...

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