| Church history - 1841 - 848 pages
...immuable art ; And, ere one flow'ry season fades and dies, Designs the blooming wonders of the next. The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains,...Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. One spirit — His, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows, Rules universal nature. Not a... | |
| Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 pages
...inimitable art; And, ere one flow'ry season fades and dies, Designs the blooming wonders of the next. The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains,...Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. One spirit—His, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows, Rules universal nature. Not a flower... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...breeding (supplemental grace) With lean performance ape the work of love. GOD THE LIFE OF ALL THAT LIVES. THE Lord of all, Himself through all diffused, Sustains,...Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the sacred fire By which the mighty process is maintained; Who sleeps not, is not weary ;... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...force, And under pressure of some conscious cause ? 220 The Lord of all, himself through all dift'us'd, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire, By which the mighty process is maintain'd, 225 Who sleeps not, is not weary... | |
| 1841 - 534 pages
...philosopher and the scholar into the homes of wisdom and science. We echo the lines of Cowper:— " Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire By which the mighty process is maintained ; Who sleeps not, is not weary;... | |
| David Hoffman - 1841 - 380 pages
...what is called nature — on these he dwells with rapture, but, perhaps, without once reflecting that 'Nature is but a name for an effect) Whose cause is God.' When we raise our eyes to the spangled vault of heaven, and behold myriads of shining spheres — when... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...>. 612.) Yet Burnct, Joseph Warton, and Johnson speak of Cowley as Rochester's favourite author.] [B Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God — COWPKR, The Talk, B. vi.] feeling, the grace, and gaiety of a poet. Nothing but a severer judgment... | |
| William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...force, And under pressure of some conscious cause ? 220 The Lord of all, himself through all diffus'd, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire, By which the mighty process is maintain'd, 225 Who sleeps not, is not weary... | |
| Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...Paradise Lost, book v. Unless blinded by prejudice, who would not join with Cowper when he says, " The Lord of all, Himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. * Psalm xix. Prayer Book Version. * • * * He feeds the sacred fire, By which the mighty process is... | |
| Books - 1842 - 650 pages
...works, and whose works an eternity would be insufficient to explore ; new reasons for believing that Nature is but a name for an effect, whose cause is God." The opening chapters of Dr. Hall's volume concern the different races of animals. He next proceeds... | |
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