 | James Bradley Finley - Methodism - 1854 - 594 pages
...energy of his body and mind were stretched to the utmost point of tension. His soul appeared to be too great for its tenement, and every moment ready...His lungs labored, his arms rose, the perspiration, mingled with tears, flowed in a steady stream upon the floor, and every thing about him seemed to say,... | |
 | James Bradley Finley - Methodism - 1854 - 562 pages
...energy of his body and mind were stretched to the utmost point of tension. His soul appeared to be too great for its tenement, and every moment ready...His lungs labored, his arms rose, the perspiration, mingled with tears, flowed in a steady stream upon the floor, and every thing about him seemed to say,... | |
 | Edward Thomson - Christian biography - 1857 - 408 pages
...every energy of his body and mind was stretched to the utmost point of tension. His soul appeared to be too great for its tenement, and every moment ready...the floor, and every thing about him seemed to say, "O that my head were waters !" But the audience thought not of the struggling body, nor even of the... | |
 | John Stewart - Methodist Church - 1870 - 422 pages
...energy of his body and mind were stretched to the utmost point of tension. His soul appeared to be too great for its tenement, and every moment ready...His lungs labored, his arms rose, the perspiration, mingled with tears, flowed in a steady stream upon the floor, and every thing ahout him seemed to say,... | |
 | John Stewart - Methodist Church - 1870 - 412 pages
...as an eagle toward heaven. His lungs labored, his arms rose, the perspiration, mingled with tears, flowed in a steady stream upon the floor, and every thing about him seemed to say, 'O that my head were waters!' But the audience thought not of the struggling body, nor even of the... | |
 | William Henry Venable - History - 1891 - 552 pages
...heaven. His lungs labored, his arms rose, the perspiration, with tears, flowed in a steady stream on the floor, and every thing about him seemed to say,...of the giant mind within, for they were paralyzed by the avalanche of thought that descended upon them. I lost the man, but the subject was all in all.'"... | |
 | William Henry Venable - History - 1891 - 548 pages
...discourse, every energy of his body and mind were stretched to the utmost tension. His soul appeared to be too great for its tenement, and every moment ready...His lungs labored, his arms rose, the perspiration, with tears, flowed in a steady stream on the floor, and every thing about him seemed to say, " Oh,... | |
 | William Henry Venable - American literature - 1891 - 550 pages
...discourse, every energy of his body and mind were stretched to the utmost tension. His soul appeared to be too great for its tenement, and every moment ready...His lungs labored, his arms rose, the perspiration, with tears, flowed in a steady stream on the floor, and every thing about him seemed to say, " Oh,... | |
 | Ohio - 1910 - 510 pages
...every energy of his body and mind was stretched to the utmost point of tension. His soul appeared to be too great for its tenement, and every moment ready...His lungs labored, his arms rose, the perspiration dropped upon the floor, and everything around him seemed to say ; 'O, that my head were waters !' But... | |
 | Ohio - 1910 - 566 pages
...energy of his body and" mind was stretched to the utmost point of tension. His soul appeared to be too great for its tenement, and every moment ready...His lungs labored, his arms rose, the perspiration dropped upon the floor, and everything around him seemed to say ; 'O, that my head were waters!' But... | |
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As he closed his discourse every energy of his body and mind was stretched to the utmost point of tension. His soul appeared to be too great for its tenement, and every moment ready to burst through and soar away as an eagle toward heaven. His lungs labored,... 