 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...like a veil or curtain/ We have the same allusion in the sublime strains of Isaiah : " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell... | |
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...and solemn dulness, in order to maintain a more uninterrupted communion with that mighty Being, " who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers before him;" Isa. xl. 22.* Welcome to Theron was the shady bower; welcome the cool aspect... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1826 - 414 pages
...the planetary globes are inhabited by various orders of intellectual beings, who participate irl the bounty, and celebrate the glory of their Creator....inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers—The nations are as the drop of a bucket—All the inhabitants of the world are reputed as nothing in his sight; and... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 376 pages
...God ; which instructs us to entertain a proper sense of our wickedness, corruption, and weakness. "He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Behold! the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the... | |
 | Charles Wellbeloved - Devotional exercises - 1826 - 278 pages
...of the earth in a " measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, " and the hills in a balance! who sitteth upon " the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants " thereof are as grasshoppers; who stretcheth " out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth " them out as a tent to... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pages
...earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ?" " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers: that stretcheth out the heaven as a curtain; and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - Festival-day sermons - 1827 - 494 pages
...pen" upon our hearts for ever. GOD hath spoken. " Have ye not known? have ye not heard ? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - Sermons, English - 1827 - 666 pages
...drop 01 a bucket:' they are of no more value than the small dust t/tat citares to the balante : God sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers:' yea, they are still less considerable, ' all nations before him ore aa nothing.' Thirdly,... | |
 | William Wake - Catechisms, English - 1827 - 454 pages
...thou, even thou, only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men. Isaiah, xl. 22. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Religion and science - 1828 - 412 pages
...the planetary globes are inhabited by various orders of intellectual beings, who participate in the bounty, and celebrate the glory of their Creator....striking emphasis to such sublime declarations of the Sa- 1 ^_^_ Eune. It is probable, t ! >at the observations which may hereafter be made on this comet,... | |
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bounty, and celebrate the glory of their Creator. When this idea is taken into consideration, it gives a striking emphasis to such sublime declarations of the Sacred Volume as these—•" All nations before him are as nothing—He sitteth upon the circle... 
