 | Biography - 1838 - 562 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with these noble words: "Thus much 1 should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones, and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, Oh earth ! earth ! earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders: thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones, and had none to cry to but with the prophet, ' O earth, earth, earth !' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with these noble words : " Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones, and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, Oh earth ! earth ! earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 564 pages
...not seem more strange, J hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth !" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...it will not seem more strange I hope, than convincing, to backsliders. This much I should have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones ; and had none to cry to but with the prophet, O earth, earth, earth ! to tell the very soil itself what 'its perverse inhabitants are deaf to ; nay,... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 524 pages
...it will not, I hope, seem more strange than convincing to backsliders. This much I should nave said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones, and had none to cry to but with the prophet, O earth, earth, earth ! — to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to... | |
 | 1846 - 396 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with these noble words: " Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees...stones, and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, Oh earth! earth ! earth ! to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to but with the prophet, 0 earth, earth, earth ! to tell the very soil itself...inhabitants are deaf to ; nay, though what I have spoken should prove (which Thou suffer not, who didst create mankind free ! nor Thou next, who didst... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I was sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth !" to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I was sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, ' O earth, earth, earth!' to tell the very soil itself, what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to.... | |
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Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth! 
