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" Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way. "
The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ... - Page 238
by Lindley Murray - 1810 - 231 pages
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Sacred Poetry: Consisting of Psalms and Hymns, Adapted to Christian Devotion ...

Jeremy Belknap - 1808 - 458 pages
...thy wifdom has denied, not this weak unknowing hand .Prefume thy bolts to throw, A.nd deal deftru&ion round the land, On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to ftay; If 1 am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way. .0 This day, be bread and peace my lot;...
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English Exercises, Adapted to Murray's English Grammar:: Consisting of ...

Lindley Murray - 1808 - 178 pages
...feed my Soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue piite Sacred substantial never fading bliss If I am right thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong On teach my heart To find that better way Save me alike from foolish pride Or impious discontent At...
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Hymns for Public Worship: For the Use of the Church in Brattle Street, Part 2

1808 - 170 pages
...thee Lord alone of man, When thoufand worlds are round. 6 Let not this weak, unknowing hand Prefume thy bolts to throw ; And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge thy foe. 7 If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to ftay ; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...Or think thee Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round : Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I jndge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay : If I am wrong, O teach...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 40

1877 - 794 pages
...Don't you remember what that verse says? — 11 Let not thle weak, unknowing hand Presume thy BOLSTER [bolts to] throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe." Such misconceptions, which it is safe to say none of the interesting little race escape, suggest the...
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Englische Studien, Volume 29

1901 - 502 pages
...Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!« und in dem eine andere Strophe lautet: >Let not this weak, unknowing band Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On eath I judge thy foe.« Nach dem, was wir bisher aus Pope's eigenem munde gehört haben, kann kein...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 97

1925 - 1072 pages
...I In every Age, In every clime, adored. By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right...wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way. To thee, whose Temple is all Space, Whose Altar Earth, Sea, Skies, One Chorus let all Being raise....
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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...think Thee Lord alone of Man, When thousand Worlds are round. Let not this weak, unknowing hand 25 Presume Thy Bolts to throw, And deal Damnation round...the land, On each I judge thy Foe. If I am right, oh teach my heart Still in the right to stay; 30 Composed in 1715, and subsequently revised for use...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 97

1925 - 1028 pages
...! In every Age. In every clime, adored, By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage, Jehovah. Jove, or Lord I If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right...wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way. To thee, whose Temple is all Space, Whose Altar Earth, Sea, Skies, One Chorus let all Being raise....
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The Hymn as Literature

Jeremiah Bascom Reeves - 1924 - 396 pages
...good hymnody, though it may be good poetry and is good Christianity: Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If the last two lines of this stanza are lyric, they are not hymnologically lyric. ' ' Damnation "is not...
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