 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - America - 1855 - 436 pages
...fills us at home with the same emotion. We comprehend now the answer to the sublime question put to Job : " Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, ' Here we are !' " And we feel that this is all but an experiment as yet, and so toil earnestly on after new victories,... | |
 | George Willis - 1855 - 112 pages
...electric telegraph not a new idea ; there is also a curious foreshadowing of it in Job xxxviii. 35, "Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?" WWB The Third Volume of Willis's Current Notes, is now published, price THREE SHILLINGS, in eloth boards.... | |
 | Commerce - 1855 - 784 pages
...telegraph we are enabled to answer Job (xxxviii., 36,) in the affirmative, who, 2,000 years ago, asked, " Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee ' Here we are !' " EARLY MANUFACTURES IN NEW ENGLAND. Fire-arms were manufactured in large quantities in colony times.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...Appropriately does Dr. Lardner quote the singularly beautiful words of Job — " Canst thou send the lightnings that they may go and say unto Thee, Here we are !" Job xxxviii. 35. The Electric Telegraph Company alone have now organized communications over 4625... | |
 | William L. G. Smith - Canada History War of 1812 - 1856 - 798 pages
...is the most admirable invention of modern days. We can now answer the sublime interrogatory put to Job: ' Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are !' Yes, the coruscations of heaven man has reduced to obedience, and they say unto him, Here we are.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 482 pages
...derived from any of the other sources. CHARLES V. WALKER. BY CHARLES V. WALKER. LESSON L EARLY EFFORTS. " Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?" 1. THE word Telegraph is composed of two Greek words, signifying to write or describe at a distance;... | |
 | William Chambers - Periodicals - 1856 - 570 pages
...the nature and scope of the phenomena, we may say without irreverence that the sublime inquiry — ' Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?' — has, in one grand sense, been answered in the affirmative. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. Hark ! the warning... | |
 | 1856 - 578 pages
...in the earth ? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee ? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are J Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts ? or who hath given understanding to the heart? Who can number... | |
 | Paris expos. univ. internat. de 1855 - 1857 - 404 pages
...in the earth ? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee ? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are ? Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts ? or who hath given understanding to the heart ?" But thus... | |
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Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are? 
