 | John Wilson - 1822 - 450 pages
...white cloud along the black walls of the chasm, and disappear. Winged creatures alone could inhabit this region. The fox and wild cat chose more accessible...canopy of a tall graceful birch tree. This pulpit stood on the middle of the channel, directly facing that congregation, and separated from them by the clear... | |
 | John Wilson - 1822 - 450 pages
...white cloud along the black walls of the chasm, and disappear. Winged creatures alone could inhabit this region. The fox and wild cat chose more accessible...canopy of a tall graceful birch tree. This pulpit stood on the middle of the channel, directly facing that' congregation, and separated from them by the clear... | |
 | John Wilson - 1822 - 326 pages
...verdure in their rents and fissures, and here and there crowned with shrubs and trees. The eye could a! whose hand hung over their heads those magnificent...steps, and over it waved the canopy of a tall graceful birch-tree. This pulpit stood on the middle of the channel, directly facing that congregation, and... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...themselves sitting in reflected groups, with their Bibles in their hands. " Here, upon a semicircular leds*e of rocks, over a narrow chasm, of which the tiny stream...steps, and over it waved the canopy of a tall graceful hirch tree. This pulpit stood oa the middle of the channel, directly facing that congregation, and... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...persecuted Christians, and worshipped God, whose hand hung over their * Church. THE AMERICAN [Lmon 93, heads those magnificent pillars and arches, scooped...canopy of a tall graceful birch tree. This pulpit stood on the middle of the channel, directly facing that congregation, and separated from them by the clear,... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...ahout a bundred persons, all devoutly listening to their minister, who stood before them on what miirht well be called a small natural pulpit of living stone....steps, and over it waved the canopy of a tall graceful hirch tree. This pulpit stood on the middle of the channel, directly facing that congregation, and... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 pages
...white cloud along the black walls of the chasm, and disappear. Winged creatures alone could inhabit this region. The fox and wild cat chose more accessible...canopy of a tall graceful birch tree. This pulpit stood on the middle of the channel, directly facing the congregation, and separated from them by the clear... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 590 pages
...of the chasm, and disappear. Winged creatures alone could inhabit this region. The fox and wild-cat chose more accessible haunts. Yet here came the persecuted...steps, and over it waved the canopy of a tall graceful birch-tree. This pulpit stood on the middle of the channel, directly facing that congregation, and... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...in which they could see themselves sitting in reflected groups, with their bibles in their hands. 4. Here, upon a semi-circular ledge of rocks, over a...steps, and over it waved the canopy of a tall, graceful birch-tree. The pulpit stood in the middle of the channel, directly facing the congregation, and separated... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...their hands. Here, upon a semi-circular ledge of rocks, over a narrow * Pron. drout. t au as in aunt. chasm of which the tiny stream played in a murmuring...steps, and over it waved the canopy of a tall graceful birch-tree. This pulpit stood on the middle of the channel, directly facing that congregation, and... | |
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God, whose hand hung over their heads those magnificent pillars and arches, scooped out those galleries from the solid rock, and laid at their feet the calm water in its transparent beauty, in which they could see themselves sitting in reflected groups,... 
