...darkness a swaddling-band for it, and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shall thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be staid?" Job xxxviii, 4-11. The people who were conversant with such views of the divine operations,...

...interpreted, and there is an end of the matter. They say to all enquiry, but that which favours their dogmas, hitherto shall thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. They look and utter scorn upon the careful and devout students of Holy Writ, who by...

...deep abyss, and who, when He pleased, has set bars and doors to so boisterous a sea, and has said, " Hitherto shall thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed" [Job xxxviii. 11] — He opposed an impenetrable obstacle to their rage, as they were...

...threatened to swallow up the world, who marked off a play-ground to the new-born anarch, and said, " Hitherto shall thou come, but no further : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" — From the time when its noisy fulness sounded in Homer's ear, and its multitudinous...

...darkness a swaddling band for it. And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors. And said, Hitherto shall thou come, but no further : and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ?" The words of Prov. viii, 30, 31, may perhaps afford us the key for a scriptural...

...Africa." Providence seemed to say to the wave of Anglo-Saxon population which is overflowing the earth, " hitherto shall thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." But God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. If America...

...swaddling band for it, 10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 11 And said. your bread to t •waves be stayed ? 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the dayspring to...

...cruel. Yet let us not be discouraged. This deluge of hell has heard a voice it will obey, saying, " Hitherto shall thou come but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." The very dilemma of the captors of these men is itself propitious. They dare not...

...powers, that there we have one of those limits where God has said to the human mind, as to the sea, " Hitherto shall thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves he stayed." ART. III.— MICHELET'S LIFE OF RICHELIEU. Richelieu et la Fronde. Par MJ Michelet....

...darkness a swaddling-band for it, and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors ; and said, Hitherto shall thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ?" Then he says again, " Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea ? or hast thou...