 | Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 662 pages
...of ours is not so constituted, as he, in his self-sufficient wisdom would presumptuously prescribe. In pride, in reasoning pride our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.1' SECTION IV. " Desiuunt enim suum judicium adhibcre ; id habent ratum, quod ab eo, quern probant,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...unjust : If man alone engross not Heaven's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there : 120 / the sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes. Men would be angels,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...such ; Say here he gives too little, there too much.— 6. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our errour lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes J Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...God's unjust; If man alone engross not Heaven's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there ; Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge...rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | Thomas Charlton Henry - Christian life - 1833 - 334 pages
...cause, by bringing into play so unhallowed, so selfish, and so petulant a temper? A temper that would "Snatch from His hand the balance and the rod, " Rejudge his justice, be the God of God." If he who thinks himself refused, would pause a moment, and ponder the effect that refusal has produced,... | |
 | Amos Augustus Phelps - Slavery - 1834 - 296 pages
...itself to exercise jurisdiction over God himself, and even to reverse his decisions. It dares to ' Snatch from his 'hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge his justice— be the God of God.' This plea then is a most wicked plea. Under a fair exterior, it hides the worst and most abominable... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...fanciest such ; Say here he gives too little, there too much. 6. In pride, in reasoning pride, our errour lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...unjust : If man alone engross not Heaven's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there; 120 Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge...skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes ; 125 Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...unjust : If man alone engross not Heaven's high care, Alone made perfect here, immortal there : 120 Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge...God. In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies ; AH quit their sphere, anil rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men... | |
 | George Thompson, William Lloyd Garrison - Slavery - 1836 - 202 pages
...to, it is said that vengeance belongs to God, and He will repay it. He will not allow mortal man to ' Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge His justice — be the God of God.' It appears, therefore, that though man, in this instance, with the sanction of Almighty God, might... | |
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In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. 
