| Henry Melvill - 1837 - 160 páginas
...happiness ; so that, in its finest and loftiest musings, its exclamation often is, "O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." Even now the soul is often able to rise above the body, to detach itself, for a while, from matter,... | |
| Henry Martyn - 1837 - 548 páginas
...felt grieved in my own mind, and troubled from the opposition of men, and I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. So then would I wander afar off, and remain in the wilderness. 13 — 24. Passed in tolerable comfort... | |
| Henry Martyn - 1837 - 544 páginas
...felt grieved in my own mind, and troubled from the opposition of men, and I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove ! for then would I flee away and be at rest. So then would I wander afar off, and remain in the wilderness. 1 3 — 24 . Passed in tolerable comfort... | |
| 468 páginas
...then in my heart. I told her so years afterwards, and she answered me in the touching language of the Psalmist, ' Oh that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." " Mrs. Hamilton was a widow. She mingled very little with those around her, but was singularly quiet... | |
| Charles Lawson (M.A.) - 1838 - 412 páginas
...enjoys a peace which no earthly objects can impart: he is even ready to exclaim, " O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest!" My brethren, in the contemplation of this eternity, what are the riches, the honours, the vanities... | |
| William Van Mildert (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 590 páginas
...the present moment. The thought of the dove, " however, tempts me to cry out, ' O that I had " wings like a dove ; for then would I flee away, " and be at rest.' " Of the Bishop's proceedings nearer home, or in his Diocese, during the summer and autumn which followed... | |
| M D. Hislop - 1884 - 376 páginas
...wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men !" He felt, like David, when he said, "O that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest." Jeremiah tries to excuse the people : he says, "Their pastors are become brutish." No wonder, then,... | |
| Greville Phillimore - 1885 - 196 páginas
...but one secure home in all that gloomy waste. ' And I said,' cried the Psalmist, ' 0 that I had wings like a dove, for then would I flee away and be at rest.' Such is the natural desire of man — he is born that he may be changed, he is not now what he shall... | |
| Rule - 1885 - 240 páginas
...here are from the thorough freedom of life in heaven. ' When shall I ' come ? ' ' Oh, that I had wings like a dove, ' for then would I flee away and be at rest.' They are part of the many things that are always reminding us that here we have no ' continuing city,... | |
| 1885 - 586 páginas
...ing are come upon me : and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, 0 that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then would I get me away far oft' : and remain in the wilderness. 8 I would make haste to escape... | |
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