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. Overland Monthly - Page 6791895Full view - About this book
| 1852 - 978 pages
...efiicacy of a visit to "The holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed ft'et, Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were- nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross," To such a degree was the superstitions regard for the land of Palestine carried, while the truths there... | |
| 1852 - 884 pages
...not born here. Our» are not " the fields over whose acres 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, «•hen its river was unknown... | |
| 1852 - 556 pages
...he plods his way along -those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which eighteen hundred years ago were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. It is some advantage- to have travelled in oriental countries previous to landing on the shores of... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - 1853 - 248 pages
...the attractions that at one time made Palestine the magnet of all Christendom,—to visit, I say, " those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed...were nailed For our advantage on the bitter Cross." As, however, the enthusiasm spent itself, the making of this pilgrimage degenerated into a mere worldly... | |
| 1853 - 520 pages
...of Him that walked the waves," — it is not Shakespeare, finding space in a play for a tribute to " those blessed feet Which, fourteen hundred years ago,...were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross," — it is no such poet, inspired of God with the crowning faculty of imagination to discern and describe... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1853 - 832 pages
...their mother's womb To chase these pagans, in those holy fields Over whose acres walked those hlesséd illiam Shakespeare But this our purpose is a twelvemonth old, And bootless 't is to tell you we will go : Therefore we... | |
| Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1853 - 392 pages
...was ever unattractive of that land — " Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross." Not a book upon Palestine was ever thrown ' 7 r*. JOURNAL OF TEN DAYS' RESIDENCE is JERUSALEM, ...... | |
| William Henry Furness - 1853 - 338 pages
...any one spot in all those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, yVhich, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross. Those trees, I imagine, in their contorted shapes might seem to be the rugged characters in which Nature... | |
| 1853 - 566 pages
...reverently wander " in those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which [eighteen] hundred years ago, were nailed For our advantage, on the bitter cross." To be compelled to give up this last purpose was one of the bitterest disappointments of his life.... | |
| 1853 - 604 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... | |
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