 | 1870 - 126 ページ
...than to deny his Lord and Saviour. Of such martyrs for the gospel's sake it may well be said : — " Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to heaven." This lengthened account of the life and character of Cheare has been given, because it is felt that... | |
 | 1870 - 496 ページ
...order of the Magistrates, John Stone, John Patison, John Cochran, &c. MDCCLXXIX." " Their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim...unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame And chas'd them up to heaven." The original stone that stood on the Gallowgreen lies on the east side of... | |
 | William M. Leftwich - 1870 - 450 ページ
...indeed, And for a time insure to his loved land The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more...divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies." The martyrs of Missouri, though unknown to fame and unambitious of distinction, have, in their humble,... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1870 - 360 ページ
...to any single man, every word by way of eminence belongs to William Tyndale. "' . . . His blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim...soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember him : he lived unknown Till persecution dragged him into fame, And chased him up to heaven. His ashes... | |
 | 1870 - 436 ページ
...Our indebtedness to him is well shown in the lines aptly prefixed by the editor : — " His blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth," &c. London and Calcutta compared in their Heathenism, their Privileges, and their Prospects. Showing... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1871 - 610 ページ
...the words of eternal life. And see next to them the glorious company of martyrs and confessors, " who lived unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to heaven :" — -who waded through seas of blood, who submitted cheerfully to every torture, upheld by the Spirit... | |
 | 1871 - 550 ページ
...their deeds, as they deserve, Receive proud recompense. * * But martyrs struggle for a brighter prizo, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of our noblest claim— Our claim to feed upon immortal Truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 290 ページ
...indeed, And for a time ensure to his loved land, The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies t Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame And chased them... | |
 | Henry Bleby - 1872 - 588 ページ
...indeed, And for a time insure to his loved land The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more...Divinely free, •To soar, and to anticipate the skies. COWPEK. fHE date of our tale carries us back, on the stream of time, some sixteen or seventeen years.... | |
 | James Moir Porteous - 1872 - 614 ページ
...upwards of a quarter of a million of persons who were slain on mountain, moor, and glen, and sea — " Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven." From the mighty Argyll, the greatest of Scottish... | |
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Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies. 
