| John James Blunt - 1856 - 416 σελίδες
...he, who deals with ordinances, they are happy to see, as Sampson did with the withes, breaking them, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire ! You will understand that what I have said is not intended to discourage the domiciliary visit, or... | |
| Thomas Griffith - 1857 - 164 σελίδες
...Spirit of God will stir within you as it stirred in Samson, and you will burst the cords of sin " even as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire !" But lastly let me say to you, Mistrust yourself. Through every moment of your conflict and in the fullest... | |
| Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 σελίδες
...laws will be but as green withes with which the giant of depravity is bound, that he may break them, " as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire." Where, then, are we to look for a ground of hope, that our beloved country shall not, in the lapse... | |
| Henry Clay Fish - 1857 - 866 σελίδες
...and permitted " the king of terrors" to bind him in his iron chains ; as God, he broke them asunder " as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire," and rose triumphantly, having deprived the governor of the prison of his keys. " I have the keys (says... | |
| Henry Clay Fish - 1857 - 874 σελίδες
...and permitted " the king of terrors" to bind him in his iron chains ; as God, he broke them asunder " as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire," and rose triumphantly, having deprived the governor of the prison of his keys. " I have the keys (says... | |
| The Dublin University Magazine A Literary and Political Journal VOL.LI.January to June,1858 - 1858 - 780 σελίδες
...Ruth. I can aspire, and I can struggle, but I cannot conquer. I shall strive to my life's end, und, bound as I am, hours will come again, perhaps, as...through life, life itself sometimes is not very long." Was it true t oh ! was it true Î I stooped my head, I turned my face from him, and wept one gush of... | |
| 1858 - 770 σελίδες
...shall have strength like him of old, to break the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when ittoucheth the fire; but for all that the struggle only will...through life. life itself sometimes is not very long.' Was it true ? oh ! was it true 1 I stooped my head, I turned my face from him, and wept one gush of... | |
| Edward Monro - 1858 - 510 σελίδες
...with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known." Then she pleads her case : she complains of his mockery of her with... | |
| Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1858 - 482 σελίδες
...rising in * See 2 Kings i. 9—12. his strength, burst the cords with which his enemies had bound him, " as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire;" and, like him, they would seize the " jaw-bone of an ass," the first weapon that came to hand, and... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Hogg - 1858 - 574 σελίδες
...impulse which shot through the circle, like the electric fluid, cause them " to break their cords, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire ? " The people of Ireland have been for a series of years in a state of diseased activity ; and, misjudging... | |
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