| Joseph Addison - 1773 - 350 pages
...lamenting their captivity in the fame penfive pofture. By the wattrs of Babylon we fat down aadwept, when we remembered thee, O Sion. But what is more remarkable, we find Judtea reprefented as a woman in forrow fitting on the ground, in a paffage of the Prophet that foretels... | |
| Jean-Pierre Ramel - Cayenne (French Guiana) - 1805 - 286 pages
...hear him. His motto was, Super flumina Babylonis, illic sedimus et flcvimus, donee recordamur Sion.* By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept, when we -/>np~l~re<i thee. O Sion ! Psalm, cxxxvii. 1. His pathetic eloquence, his harmonious voice, the spirited... | |
| Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 426 pages
...the several marks of sorrow they have set on this figure. The Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture. By the...thee, O Sion. But what is more remarkable, we find Judaea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the ground, in a passage of the prophet that foretells... | |
| Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 436 pages
...the several marks of sorrow they have set on this figure. The Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive •posture. By...we sat down, and •wept -when we remembered thee, 0 Sion. But what is more remarkable, we find Judaea represented as a woman in sorrow sitting on the... | |
| Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 434 pages
...the several marks of sorrow they have set on this figure. The Psalmist describes the Jews lamenting their captivity in the same pensive posture. By the waters of Babylon zve sat down, and wept when -we remembered thee, O Sion. But what is more remarkable, we find Judaea... | |
| Sydney Smith - Sermons, English - 1809 - 456 pages
...your neighbour as yourself. ON THE . :, ; LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY. SERMON XIII. PSALM CXXXVII. VERSE I. By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, Oh Sion ! THIS beautiful Psalm was written in commemoration of the Babylonish captivity ? written,... | |
| Sydney Smith - Sermons - 1809 - 452 pages
...love -your neighbour as yourself. ON THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY. SERMON XIII* PSALM CXXXVII. VERSE I. By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, Oh Sion ! THIS beautiful Psalm was written in commemoration of the Babylonish captivity written, if... | |
| Sydney Smith - Sermons - 1809 - 452 pages
...and love your neighbour as yourself. ON THE LOVE OF OUR COUNTRY. SERMON XIII. PSALM CXXXVII. VERSE I. By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept, when we remembered tJiee, Oh Sion ! • THIS beautiful Psalm was written in commemoration of the Babylonish captivity... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...give thanks unto the Lord of lords ; for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm cxxxvii. Super Jlumina. BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered dice, O Sion. 2 As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that... | |
| Military art and science - 1812 - 640 pages
...History does not exhibit a more melancholy contrast than in the former and present state of Spain. " By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Zion." It is impossible for a scholar and gentleman, even imperfectly acquainted with the autient Annals... | |
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