 qui parle au precipice et que le gouffre entend," and the strenuous mood awakens at the sound. It saith among the trumpets, ha, ha ! it smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.  Dissertations Moral and Critical - Page 205by James Beattie - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Thomas James Rawson - Agriculture - 1807 - 342 pages
...neither believeth he, that it is the sound of the trumpet. " He saith among the trumpets ha! ha ! and smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.1' The lower classes of farmers have brood-mares as part of their tillage stock. They never... | |
 | 1826 - 1036 pages
...neither believcth he that il is me sound of the trumpet. 25 He sailh among the trumpets, Ha, ha ! and be shouting. E 26 Doth theTiawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south ? 27 Doth the... | |
 | Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - England - 1832 - 382 pages
...ground ;' ' neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, ha, ha;' despises their alarm as much as we do that of...in order of battle, and makes us think we hear the clashing armour and the shouts of encountering multitudes." LETTER LXXXIII. Enthusiastic Admiration... | |
 | John Brown Patterson - 1837 - 454 pages
...thunder clothed," whose joy is to meet the armed men:—" He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha!—he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." To show that for the advancement of Messiah's reign and conquest of the world there should... | |
 | 1837 - 680 pages
...believetli he that it is the sound of the trumpet. 25 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ! and be RD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besidea shouting. 2ti Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, andstretch her wings toward the south ? 27 Doth the... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...the range of the mountains his pasture," and the horse, whose " neci is clothed with thunder," who " smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shoutmg." We are told of the peacock's " goodly wings" — of the ostrich, " which leaveth her eggs... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Biography - 1842 - 416 pages
...very briefly. On the death of Henry IV, Bouillon scented civil war and intrigue as the war-horse " smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting." He hastened to Court and advised the Prince of Conde to contest the Regency with Mary de... | |
 | John Mason Neale - Great Britain - 1843 - 216 pages
...and who knoweth whither much spurring and goading may force him ? Even like a noble destrier, which smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting ; but being over-urged with the rowel, turneth against his own rider, and his own friends."... | |
 | Arminianism - 1847 - 672 pages
...standeth not still at the sound of the trumpet. At the blasts of the trumpets he saith, Ahah ! And lie smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains and the slioutiug." We have no hesitation in asserting that this highly poetic picture could only be produced... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - Lawyers - 1850 - 318 pages
...strength : who goeth on to meet the armed men, — who sayeth among the trumpets, Ha, ha ! and who smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting." A confidence in his own resources, springing from no vain estimate of his power, but the... | |
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