...Wilberforce had relation to Pitt's firmness in resisting the spread of French Jacobinism in England: "He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed." Nor has the present century been scant of those bits of oratory which crystallize into sayings. " The...

...Wilberforce had relation to Pitt's firmness in resisting the spread of French Jacobinism in England : ' He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.' Nor has the present century been scant of those bits of oratory which crystallise into sayings. ' The...

...for the Day," p. i4. pronounced with authority the words, " Thy sins be forgiven thee." And Aaron had stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed ; and Elijah had closed and opened the windows of heaven ; but sin they had all left in the hands of...

...command Aaron took the censer of incense and offered incense to purify the children of Israel ; and he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. But there died fourteen thousand and seven hundred. The children of Israel came into the wilderness...

...command Aaron took the censer of incense and offered iucense to purify the children of Israel ; and he stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. But there died fourteen thousand and seven hundred. The children of Israel came into the wilderness...

...put fire thereon from off the altar, and ran into the midst of the congregation, and put on incense, and stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed. Will no one do it now ? We are encircled by the immortal memorials of those who fought the slave trade,...

...incense in his censer with the sacred fire from off the altar, he ran into the midst of the congregation and stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed, but not till 14,700 of the people had perished. In this striking picture Aaron is a type of our glorious...

...singularly felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : ' He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.' " Repenting of his Vote. — Lord Sidmouth told us that one morning at a Cabinet meeting, after an...

...Douglas, as Wilberforce so finely said of Pitt when he breasted the torrent of Jacobin principles: " He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed!"' It has been urged against the consistency of Mr. Douglas' political course that he changed ground respecting...

...singularly felicitous and striking allusion to Mr. Pitt's resisting the torrent of Jacobin principles : ' He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.' " Repenting of his Vote. — Lord Sidmouth told us that one morning at a Cabinet meeting, after au...