 | John Stoughton - 1867 - 590 pages
...experience when lie was pressed by the greatest of mystical problems, he says : — " One morning, as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me ; but I sat still. And it was said, ' All things come by nature,' and the elements and stars came over... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1868 - 520 pages
...an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over the ocean of darkness." Again: " One morning as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me; but I sate still. And it was said, 'All things come by nature;' and the elements and stars came over... | |
 | William Tallack - 1868 - 242 pages
...former inward conflicts. Thus, whilst preaching in the Vale of Belvoir, he records : " One morning, as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me ; but I sat still. And it was said, " All things come by nature." But as I sat still and said nothing,... | |
 | World, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1870 - 822 pages
...many convinced in the Vale of Beavor, in many towns, for I stayed some weeks amongst them. One morning as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me ; but I sat still. And it was said, "All things come by nature;" and the elements and stars came over... | |
 | 1889 - 902 pages
...untutored and undenled, of which, like John Bunyan, his contemporary, he was a master. " And one morning, as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over...came over me; so that I was in a manner quite clouded • " A Journal or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, and Christian Eipericnces,... | |
 | Francis William Upham - 1873 - 454 pages
...morning as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a Temptation beset me ; and I sat still and it was said, All things come by Nature, and the elements and the stars came over me, so that I was in a measure quite clouded with it ; but inasmuch as I sat still... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...of a particular movement of his mind in singularly beautiful and impressive language : 'One morning, ambers moment quite clouded with it ; but, inasmuch as I sate still and said nothing, the people of the house... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - 1877 - 528 pages
...an infinite ocean of light and love which flowed over the ocean of darkness." Again, " one morning as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me ; but I sate still. And it was said, ' all things come by nature? and the elements and stars came over... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1878 - 762 pages
...more paragraph to illustrate the interior states and processes of the early Friends. " One morning as I was sitting by the fire, a great cloud came over me, and a temptation beset me ; but I sat still. And it was said, ' all things come by nature ;' and the elements and stars came... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...singularly beautiful and impressive language : ' One morning, as I was sitting by the fire, a great clond came over me, and a temptation beset me, and I sate...Elements and Stars came over me, so that I was in a moment quite clonded with it ; but, inasmuch as I sate still and said nothing, the people of the house... | |
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All things come by Nature. And the elements and stars came over me ; so that I was in a manner quite clouded with it. 
