...sent this book to Cambridge to be licensed for the press, the vicechancellor objected to the verses, " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand :" and refused to allow its publication unless they were expunged. Mr. Ferrar, on the other hand, would...

...longer poem, and will be read with peculiar interest, ns marking with precision a memorable epoch. " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. When drafts of future bane shall fill our cup Unto the brim, and make our measure up; When Seine shall swallow...

...longer poem, and will be read with peculiar interest, as marking with precision a memorable epoch. " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. When drafts of future bane shall fill our cup Unto the brim, and make our measure up ; When Seine shall...

...tincture of the spirit of prophecy. Shall I say, I hope, or fear Mr. Herbert's lines should be verified ? Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass...When height of malice, and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinnings, witchcrafts and distrusts (The marks of future bane) shall fill our cup Unto the brim, and...

...tincture of the spirit of prophecy. Shall I say, I hope, or fear Mr. Herbert's lines should be verified ? Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. U hon height of malice, and prodigious lusts, Impudent sinnings, witchcrafts and distrusts (The marks...

...course of the new Episcopal church in the Western world, says : 10"Religion stands on tip-toe inonr land, Ready to pass to the American strand ; When...Impudent sinning, witchcrafts, and distrusts, (The mark of future bane,) shall fill our cup Unto the brim, and make our measure up. ***** Yet as the Church...

...Herbert on the translation of Protestantism to America from England, in this way. Herbert said — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand, When Seine shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames, By letting in them both, pollutes her streams ; Then shall...

...and foresight of a wise man, or there be something more prophetical in it I cannot tell. It is this : Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand, When Seine shall swallow Tiber, and the Thames By letting in them both, pollute her streams, Then shall...

...himself unworthy an aspiration of holy George Herbert, in the days of the Mayflower Pilgrims, — " Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand ! " It is evident, however, that Madam Adams was mistaken regarding the minority. On turning to the...

...rottenness at the heart. On this subject, the lines of George Herbert were often a comfort to him :— Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand. And so it was ready to pass to America; but not so as to leave England. What would be the feelings...