They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD : and His wonders in the deep. Two Years on the Alabama - Page 192by Arthur Sinclair - 1895 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
| Augustus William Hare - 1836 - 526 pages
...shipwreck. The eye of the Lord was upon him, to deliver his soul from death. In like manner do those who go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters, still see the works of the Lord, and the wonders of his hand. I mention seafaring men, because they... | |
| 1836 - 566 pages
...particular states and directions of the wind are indications of rain or drought. But to those " who go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters," not only the degree of force, but the direction of the wind, is of the highest moment : while on many... | |
| James Hervey - 1837 - 730 pages
...persons are engaged in her service ? and how amply are they repaid for their pains ? '•They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business...great waters, these men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep." They a!so that dwell among their own people, and abide in the villages, even... | |
| John Jebb - 1837 - 512 pages
...13. by the unaccountable influence of a sorry stone. " They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters : these men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves... | |
| James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1837 - 368 pages
...the ' means and appliances' within our reach to preserve the lives and property of those " that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters3?" We know that "these men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep." We know... | |
| Richard Hurrell Froude - 1838 - 460 pages
...productive of excitement and animation, which is most congenial to the true spirit of poetry. " They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business...waters ; these men see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep." The effect of this is, that through the works of Homer the true spirit of... | |
| Sir George Back - 1838 - 500 pages
...crush. Wonderful, therefore, was the whole! and well might we repeat with the Psalmist, " They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business...waters ; these men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep." Who amongst us can ever forget that day ? The ship, though tolerably upright,... | |
| John Pring - 1838 - 588 pages
...that perhaps very unwholesome : as people are sometimes made to feel, and especially " they that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters ;" (Ps. cvii. 23;) or much oftener however than we, who live ashore, and are allowed to occupy our... | |
| George Hogarth - 1838 - 332 pages
...the anthem are the 23rd and 24th of the Psalm, ' They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy business in great waters, These men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.' "— HauikinB, Vol. IV. p. 359. year 1713, when Handel's Te Deum, for the... | |
| Henry Addington Simcoe - 1838 - 302 pages
...the enemy," seeming to intimate that they best could do it. Again, when describing those " that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters," it says, " these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep ;" as if they in a peculiar... | |
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