 | John Duncon - 1760 - 138 pages
...pleafures, I have oft feen fuddenly quenched ; and can that from heaven, hea* venly, be quenched too ? Oh that I had wings like a dove, that I might flee away to thofe comforts and pleafures, which never fail, where there UI ulndo of. joy, und that for evermore... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - Faith - 1793 - 554 pages
...this not take my heart off it ; and crucify me to it ? Can I forbear to cry out with the pfalmift, " O that I had wings like a dove, " that I might flee away, and be at reft ?'* for wha£ reft iri fuch a diforderly place of uproar and confufion ? What tranquillity, in... | |
 | Maria De Fleury - 1804 - 302 pages
...in producing briars and 1 thorns, which prick his feet, and retard his pace, and make him cry out, " O that I had wings like a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest." Or, in the language of an inspired apostle, " O wretched man that I am !".... Such a wilderness is... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - Prayers - 1812 - 188 pages
...hot displeasure. Attend unto me and hear me ; I mourn in my corn;p5aint, and make a noise. And I said O that I had wings like a dove, that "I . might flee away and be at rest. Se then. I would wander afar off, and remain, in the wilderness. God be merciful unto us and bless... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1815 - 286 pages
...have not jet begun the warfare. 31st. My soul is exceedingly sorrowful and weary, because of sin. Oh, that I had wings, like a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest. I hoped that through grace I had walked more carefully, more warily of late, and trusted that, at this... | |
 | Martha Laurens Ramsay - 1815 - 288 pages
...have not yet begun the warfare. 31st. My soul is exceedingly sorrowful and weary, because of sin. Oh, that I had wings, like a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest. I hoped that through grace I had walked more carefully, more warily of late, and trusted that, at this... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1821 - 490 pages
...time for me now to consider myself a stranger and pilgrim on earth." He would often say, "O that I bad wings like a dove, that I might flee away and be at...by travelling, and said there was great justice in Ihe remark of Jeremy Taylor, that "no one can be devout who leads a. wandering life." The thought of... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...or a brother — have been conveyed to the silent tomb, have you not thought within yourself, " Oh, that I had wings like a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest! " I would soon be where they are ! How my soul yearns to rejoin them ! — this world, this vain empty... | |
 | John Brown Patterson - 1837 - 496 pages
...less than sentiment and taste for the poetic and the picturesque, might well dictate the desire, ' O, that I had wings like a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest,'—that for one day my spirit might repose from the hurry and the hum of men, pillowed upon Nature's... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont, Mary Tatham - Methodist women - 1838 - 438 pages
...than sentiment and taste for the poetic and the picturesque, might well dictate the desire, " O that 1 had wings like a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest," that for a season my spirit might repose from the hurry and the hum of men, pillowed upon nature's... | |
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