 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...empty school, Spent all his force and made no proselyte) — 1 say the pulpit (in the sober use ()t its legitimate, peculiar pow'rs) Must stand acknowledg'd,...while the world shall stand, The most important and cfibctual guard, Support, and ornament, of virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...force and made no proselyte)— I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledg'd, while the world shall stand, The most important and effeftual guard, 335 Support, and ornament, of virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth... | |
 | Peter L. Courtier - Christian biography - 1809 - 392 pages
...?, VOL. I. -The Pulpit, in the sober use Of its legitimate peculiar powers, Hut stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand , The most important and...effectual guard, Support, and ornament, of virtue's cause. COWPER. LONDON: PRINTED FOR MATHEWS AND LEIGH, STRAND, By James Moyes, GrevUle Street. .*./ -. IT seems... | |
 | Garnet Terry - 1809 - 414 pages
...ONESIMUS. -The Pulpit, in the sohe Of its legitimate peculiar powers, Most Stand a'.Itimwl,,,l«<nl. while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament, of virtne's canse. COWPER. LONDON: PRINTED FOR MATHEWS AND LEIGH, STRAND, By James Moyes, Greville Street.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...last, Strutting and vap'ring in an empty school, Spent all his force and made no proselyte)..-.. I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar...The most important and effectual guard, Support, and brnament, of virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...declamation. There can be, I think, no reflecting man who is not ready to acknowledge with Cowper, that, " The pulpit (in the sober use " Of its legitimate,...world shall stand, " The most important and effectual puard, " Support and ornament of virtue's cause. The poet has qualified his encomium judiciously, by... | |
 | 1811 - 710 pages
...declamation. There can be, I think, no reflecting man who is not ready to acknowledge with Cowper, that, The pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar pow'rs) Must stand acknowledgM, while ihe world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament,... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...last, Strutting and vap'ring in an empty school, Spent all hi? force and made no proselyte) — I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its- legitimate, peculiar pow'rs) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament,... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 pages
...last, Strutting and vap'ring in an empty school, Spent all his force and made no proselyte)— I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar pow'rs) Must stand scknowledg'd, while the world shall stand • ' The most important and effectual guard, Support, and... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 252 pages
...— I say the pulpit (in the soher use Of its legitimate peculiar powers) Moat stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand. The most important and...effectual guard, Support, and ornament, of virtue's canse. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies !— His theme divine,... | |
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I say the pulpit, in the sober use Of its legitimate peculiar powers, Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. 
