 | William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley - 1835
...Thwart his attempts, or envy his success. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding,...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliverer of an injured land He gives a tongue to enlarge upon, a heart... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - Literary Criticism - 1836
...offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, 790 That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliverer of an injured land He gives a tongue to enlarge upon, an... | |
 | William Cowper - Literary Criticism - 1836
...offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, 790 That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliverer of an injured land He gives a tongue to enlarge upon, an... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837
...envy his success. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to ev'ry man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliv'rer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue t' enlarge upon, a heart... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839
...Thwart his attempts, or envy his suceess. Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding,...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliverer of an injured land He gives a tongue to enlarge upon, a heart... | |
 | William Hague - Religion - 1839 - 192 pages
...which led him hither, to present an impressive view of the great truth which Cbwper felt when he said, God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding,...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordained to fill. Here he has left many memorials of a useful life, And a name that will be... | |
 | Religion - 1839
...great Proprietor of all adapts his instruments to the work which he has appointed for them to perform. "God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding,...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordained to fill." My uncle's second rule was, " Apply them rightly." It is not merely bringing... | |
![The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...](http://bks7.books.google.ca/books?id=8iUEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...") | ...brother on the subject of Baptism, we are reminded of the fact, so well expressed by Cowper, that " God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding,...him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordained to fill." While his Hand-Book on Baptism was passing through the press his attention... | |
 | William Cowper, John Johnson - 1841
...will have) Great talents. And God gives to ev'ry man * The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, 790 That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. To the deliv'rer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue t' enlarge upon, a heart... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842
...offices will have Great talents. And God gives to ev'ry man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, 790 That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill . To the deliv'rer of an injur'd land He gives a tongue t' enlarge upon, a... | |
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Some must be great : great offices will have Great talents : and God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill. 
