 | 1805 - 590 pages
...pressing them both clasped together, with warmth and energy to his breast, lifting his " sightless balls" to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice — " but Jesus Christ like a God !" The flood which, just before, had rushed in a torrent upon my brains, and in the violence and agony... | |
 | American literature - 1804 - 496 pages
...pressing them both, clasped together, with warmth and energy to his breast, lifting his " sightless balls" to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice...." but Jesus Christ.... like a Ciod !....If he had been indeed and in truth an angel of light, the effect could scarcely have been... | |
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1805 - 144 pages
...clasped together, with warmth and energy to his breast, lifting his " sightless balls" to Heav£n, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice...." but Jesus Christ. ...like a God !'r If he had been indeed and in truth an angel of light, the effect could scarcely have been more... | |
 | David Ramsay - Enslaved persons - 1809 - 642 pages
...them both " clasped together with warmth and energy to his breast, Ijft" ing his " sightless balls " to heaven, and pouring his whole " soul into his tremulous...more divine. Whatever " I had been able to conceive of the sublimity of Masillon, or " the force of Bourdaloue,. had fallen far short of the power " which... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...balls to Heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice— 1 ' but Jesus Christ—like a God!" If he had been indeed and in truth an angel...light, the effect could scarcely have been more divine. If this description gives you the impression, that this incomparable minister had any ihing of shallow,... | |
 | Garnet Terry - 1812 - 408 pages
...them both, clasped together, with warmth and energy, to his breast, lifting his " sightless balls" to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous...more divine. ' Whatever I had been able to conceive of the sublimity of Massillon or the force of Bourdaloue, had fallen far short of the power which I... | |
 | 1815 - 444 pages
...pressing them hoth, clasped together, with warmth and energy to his breast, lifting his " sightless halls" to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous...more divine. Whatever I had been able to conceive of the sublimity of Massillon or the force of Bourdaloue, had fallen far short of the power which I... | |
 | William Wirt - Virginia - 1829 - 250 pages
...pressing them both clasped together, with warmth and energy to his breast, lifting his " sightless balls" to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous...more divine. Whatever I had been able to conceive of the sublimity of Maasillon, or the force of Bourdaloue, had fallen far short of the power which... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...breast, rifting bis ^ Bigness balls" to heaven, and pouringhis whole soul into his tremulousvoice — "but Jesus Christ — like a God!" If he had been...more divine. Whatever I had been able to conceive of the sublimity of Massillon, or the force of Bourdaloue, had fallen far short of ttie power which... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...pressing them both, clasped together, with warmth and energy to his breast, lifting his sightless balls to Heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous...truth an angel of light, the effect could scarcely be more divine. Whatever I have been able to conceive of the sublimity of Massillon, or the force of... | |
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... to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice — "but Jesus Christ — like a God!" If he had been indeed and in truth an angel of light, the effect could scarcely have been more divine. 
