| Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pages
...Saviour's birth. Wherever the power of the Gospel is felt, there joy and peace reign. " The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom, as a rose. It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing." Christianity displays... | |
| 1836 - 344 pages
...to the door of every loghouse and cabin in the remotest wilds of the West, — that the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. MR. PRAY rose and moved the acceptance of the llepoit. He did it, he said, with unminglcd... | |
| Edward Irving - 1828 - 504 pages
...nature, animate and inanimate, and make mention in its ear of the great jubilee which is hastening on, when " the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose." In all those profane and infidel exaltations of the present condition of the natural... | |
| Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - 1828 - 464 pages
...again." Yes, Communicants, long ages are yet to revolve, during the progress of which " the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose," — and myriads who have not yet tasted existence, are to appear upon this living scene,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 478 pages
...will give seed to the sower and bread to the eater :" " they shall build houses and inhabit them ; and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice." MONTESINOS. The lower classes may be more easily disposed of, and are both more willing and more able... | |
| Robert Southey - 1829 - 488 pages
...earth will give seed to the sower and bread to the eater:" " they shall build houses and inhabit them; and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice." MONTESINOS. The lower classes may be more easily disposed of, and are both more willing and more able... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1831 - 424 pages
...the time when the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea, — when the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose, — it shall blossom abundantly, the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1831 - 284 pages
...falling of showers, and the bursting out of springs in a desert. Thus in Isaiah ; " The wilderness. and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. For m the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert ; and the parched... | |
| Henry Erskine Head - 1831 - 106 pages
...recruit you. The whole creation shall give you pleasures which you never knew before. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. SON. Does Christianity call us into wilds and solitudes ? Does it enjoin perpetual reveries... | |
| William Stephen Gilly - 1832 - 336 pages
...he writes thus of the temporal and spiritual condition of Dormilleuse and Minsas. " ' The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.' This dreary and savage valley seems to have realized an accomplishment of the prophecy.... | |
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