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" Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure, whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will... "
The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 270
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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Sermons by the Late William B. O. Peabody, D. D.: With a Memoir

William Bourn Oliver Peabody - 1849 - 396 pages
...for good the supplicating voice, But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. Safe in His power, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious prayer ; Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure, whate'er He gives, He gives the best." The doctrine which we have thus endeavoured...
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Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death...

Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pages
...and more to the will and commands of the Almighty: " Safe in His power, whose eyes discern from far The secret ambush of a specious prayer : Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure, whate'er He gives, He gives the best."* " We are brothers," writes Dr. Johnson,...
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Doctor Johnson: His Religious Life and His Death

Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 pages
...and more to the will and commands of the Almighty : " Safe in His power, whose eyes discern from far The secret ambush of a specious prayer : Implore His aid, in His decisions rest Secure, whate'er He gives, He gives the best."t " We are brothers," writes Dr. Johnson,...
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The speaker: or, Miscellaneous pieces selected from the best English writers ...

William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...may hear, nor deem religion vain. Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. Safe in his pow'r, whose...eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r, Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet when...
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Selections from the British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to ...

1851 - 496 pages
...for good the supplicating voice, But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. Safe in his power whose eyes discern afar, The secret ambush of a specious prayer ; Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the beat. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...for good the supplicating voice, But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. Safe in his power, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious prayer. Implore his aid, in his decisions rest, Secure whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence...
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...for good the supplicating voice, But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. Safe in His power, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious prayer ; Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure, whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence...
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A cyclopædia of sacred poetical quotations, ed. by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...for good the supplicating voice, But leave to Heaven the measures and the choice. Safe in His power whose eyes discern afar, The secret ambush of a specious prayer; Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Dr. Johnson. O may my prayers before Thy...
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The Popular Educator, Volume 6

1855 - 424 pages
...fir good the supplicating voice, But leave to heaven the measure and the choice. Safe in his power, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious prayer, Implore his aid, in his decisions rest', Secure what e'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet when theseuse of sacred presence...
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The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 pages
...for good the supplicating voice, But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice ; Safe in His power, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious prayer, Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence...
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