To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. The Newtonian - Page 102by Newton Abbot College - 1877Full view - About this book
| 1844 - 784 pages
...historical interest to that favoured one ' Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.' The work before us is the production of an architect, who visited Egypt, as he tells us in his preface,... | |
| 1852 - 862 pages
...not born here. Ours ate not "the fields over whose actes walked those blessed feet, which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed for our advantage on the bitter cross." The gospel was brought to us. There was a time when London was a forest, when its river was unknown... | |
| 1844 - 454 pages
...the feelings so finely described by Shakspere, as inspired by contemplation of " Those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which...were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross." Such remains carry the mind back to pious and illustrious characters who are " no more on earth." The... | |
| Ant The - 1827 - 306 pages
...Palestine the mothercountry of Christians. " Over its acres walked those blessed feet Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross." God was flesh within its bounds; its paths have been paced by the world's Saviour; " the voice of the... | |
| 1828 - 602 pages
...misguided enthusiasm which, in the olden time, led crowds of pilgrims and crusaders to ' those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which,...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross.' It is a poetical, rather than a theological sentiment, and har~ monizes far better with Tasso, than... | |
| 1829 - 354 pages
...Palestine the mothercountry of Christians. " Over its acres walked those blessed feet Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross." God was flesh within its bounds; its paths have been paced by the world's Saviour; " the voice of the... | |
| 1853 - 1142 pages
...region of all hallowed associations, " Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross." Nor did he relinquish all designs of this sort until he became fully satisfied, that in the high sphere... | |
| John David Macbride - 1835 - 478 pages
...when they meditate on that hallowed land, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross ! This feeling, no doubt, from the very commencement of Christianity, led many a true devoted pilgrim To measure... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...levy,1 Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which,...were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, And bootless 'tis to tell you — we will go ; Therefore3... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 pages
...levy,1 Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb, To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which,...were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, And bootless 'tis to tell you — we will go ; Therefore... | |
| |