...band for it, and brake up for it his decreed place, and set bars nnd doors, and said hitherto shall thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." The inhabitants of the ocean are but pattially known. What know we of the inhabitants of a...

...holds it waters " in the hollow of his hand," and who has said to its foaming surges, " Hitherto shall thou come, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." RIVERS. — The next feature of the earth's surface which may be noticed, is, the rivers with...

...which have repelled its fury for centuries, and kept it within the boundaries prescribed by Him who said ' hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed;—or else an imaginary line, owing its existence to the contracted limits of our vision. Leaving...

...earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ;" of Him who " shut up the sea with doors," and said "Hitherto shalt thou come but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ; men should stand up and deny that he has...

...and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." From such a state, the earth gradually emerged, that garment of cloud slowly dissipating....

...to rise, as he gazes to new ideas of power, vastness, and glory, then first compassing the text, " Hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther ; and here shall thy proud •waves be stayed." How many feelings, again, of an interesting kind, and of unquestionable effect in the formation...

...that neither toil nor spin, with a glory that excels the pomp and grandeur of Solomon's court. He " shut up the sea with doors," and said, " Hitherto...and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." It is the Almighty Being that arrests the storm, and smooths the tempestuous billows of the...

...Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. But none could say to these mightier than the waters of the ocean, " hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be staid ;" and sweeping over Wisconsin, they burst across the Father of Waters, and subdued Missouri and Iowa....

...Indiana, and Illinois. But none could say to these mightier than the waters of the ocean, " hitherto shall thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be staid;" and sweeping over Wisconsin, they burst across the Father of Waters, and subdued Missouri and Iowa....

...power, lying tranquilly within the bound which God affixed to it, and to remember the words, ' Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stopped,' affords so grand an illustration of his might, so fine a proof of the truth of his promises,...