 | Theology - 1860 - 950 pages
...not called amiss, ' The Good Old Cause." . . . 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.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 378 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with those 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.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with those 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.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 364 pages
...establish a free commonwealth, concluding with those 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 [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...forewarn my country in time. . . . Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should to 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 its inhabitants are deaf to : nay,... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 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, '0 earth, earth, earth!' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 416 pages
...it will not, I hope, seem more strange 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... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pages
...which is not called amiss ' The goal old cause ;' " and he will plead for it and exhort, " though I was sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones. and had none to cry to but, with the prophet, ' Oh ! eartli. earth, earth !' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...not called amiss " the good old cause ;" adding, " 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.... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 504 pages
...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.... | |
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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! 
