In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 118by Edmund Burke - 1826Full view - About this book
| George Stanley Faber - 1823 - 468 pages
...which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before 1 Job iii. my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern...silence, and I heard a voice. SHALL MORTAL MAN BE JUST RATHER THAN GOD ? SHALL MAN BE PURE RATHER THAN HIS MAKER? BEHOLD, HE PUTTETH NO TRUST IN HIS... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...and trembling, which made my bones shake. Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still; but I could not discern...before mine eyes. There was silence; and I heard a voice—Shall mortal man be more just than God?" The description of Fingal's airy hall, in the Poem... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1823 - 458 pages
...trembling, which made all my bones to shake. " Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair " of my flesh stood up : it stood still ; but I could " not discern the form thereof; an image was be" fore mine eyes : there was silence ; and I heard " a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1824 - 510 pages
...trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still ; but I could not discern...mine eyes , there was silence; and I heard a voice saying, Shall mortal man be more just than * Ye subterranean gods, whose awful sway The gliding ghosts... | |
| Joseph Caryl - 1824 - 282 pages
...high in their own conceits, give no evidence of having attained true saving knowledge. " Verse 16. ' It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof;...mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying. " He could not form an exact idea of it in his own mind, so he could not describe it. His conscience... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 480 pages
...his natural being, so also of his new creation, or of his restoration, as a fallen creature, to the the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence and I heard a voice, saying " Shall mortal man be more just than God ? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker ?" " The... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image wu before mine eyes, there vas silence, and I heard a voice, laying, Job iv. 14 — 16. His body also... | |
| Samuel O'Sullivan - 1825 - 300 pages
...senses, by which external objects are made apprehensible by the soul. " It stood still," he says, " but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before me." My accompanying sensations are far different, but certainly I have a distinct and constraining... | |
| Thom Scott - 1825 - 688 pages
...mean any thing material. Eliphaz says, " Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of " my flesh stood up: it stood still; but I could not " discern the form thereof."2 Was this spirit material? — Nebuchadnezzar said, "I see four " men walking in the midst... | |
| Thomas Wetherald - 1826 - 220 pages
...impressed views of Job's miserable comforter. "Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. . It stood still, but I could not discern...mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall man be more pure than his Maker? Behold he put... | |
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