 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pagina’s
...quaint in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heavenly mind, — demands a doubt. He that negociates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware 465 Of lightness in his speech. 'T is pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break... | |
 | Rebecca Jones - 1849 - 388 pagina’s
...she brought extraordinary qualifications to her aid in yielding to the heavenly call to "Negotiate between God and man As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy." She was eminent for pleading the cause of the poor, and for acting, as we shall have occasion to notice,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pagina’s
...fantastic, trim, And quaint, in its deportment and attire, Can lodge a heavenly mind — demands a doubt. He, that negotiates between God and man, As God's...when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation ; and t' address The skittish fancy with facetious tales, When sent with God's commission to the heart :... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1850 - 226 pagina’s
...with which the poet introduces his remarks on the ancient philosophers, beginning with the lines — " He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador,...mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech," &c. &c. I could not have been in a better frame to consider the grand subject thus brought before me.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 458 pagina’s
...two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." 115. Cowper, Task, II. : — u He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador,...when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation ; and t' address The skittish fancy with facetious tales, When sent with God's commission to the heart 1... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pagina’s
...condescending love. — Gurnall. He that negotiates 'tween God and man, As God's ambassador, the graud concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of...you should woo a soul ! To break a jest, when pity should inspire Pathetic exhortation ; and t' address When sent with God's commission The skittish fancy... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 780 pagina’s
...two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." 115. Cowper, Task, II.:— " He that negotiates between God and man. As God's ambassador,...of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'T is pitiful To court ag^rin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity would inspire... | |
 | 1867 - 806 pagina’s
...usefulness. It would be well, perhaps, if, in certain quarters, the poet's words were remembered : — He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador,...of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'Tie pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity would inspire... | |
 | Daniel Stevens Dickinson - 1867 - 772 pagina’s
...trains, by every rule Of holy discipline, to glorious war The sacramental hosts of God's elect. ****** He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador,...mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech." " O what a fall was there, my countrymen," when the legitimate functions of this office were exchanged... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1867 - 80 pagina’s
...good.—Shakspeare. 14. Meet is it changes should control Our being, lest we rust in ease.— Tennyson. 15. lie that negotiates between God and man As God's ambassador,...judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.—Cowper. 17. If I foreknow, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault Which had no less... | |
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He, that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech. 'Tis pitiful To court a grin, when you should woo a soul ; To break a jest, when pity would inspire Pathetic... 
