 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 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. Nay,... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1875 - 578 pages
...which seems to imply that he then admitted their coequality. ' Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and liad none to cry to but with the prophet, " O earth, earth, earth !" to tell the very soil itself what... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...not seem more strange, I hope, than convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, y few men, have attained thereunto?' 'I will tell...tell you a truth which, perchance, ye will marvel her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay, though what I have spoke should happen — which Thou suffer... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 736 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,... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 736 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 I, to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 708 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.... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 720 pages
...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, witli the prophet, ' O Earth, Earth, Earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...convincing to backsliders. Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have ppoken only to trees and stones : and had none to cry to, but with the prophet : ' O enrth, earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitnnts are deaf to.... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - Church history - 1883 - 350 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 I to tell the very soil itself what its perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1883 - 592 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 its perverse inhabitants are deaf to. Nay,... | |
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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! 
