“Apprehensive”; doubtful, filled with forebodings and easily moved.
“Unassailable”; not subject to attack; here the meaning is rather that of unconquerable.
“Constant”; insistent, the first time the word appears; but unchangeable, the second time.
B. Phrases. “Well moved”; easily moved.
“If I were as you”; if I were as you are, or if I were like you.
“Could pray to move”; could try to change the opinion or the determination of someone else.
“True-fixed and resting quality”; quality of always remaining true or fixed to the one spot in the heavens.
“So in the world”; as all the unnumbered stars shine in the heavens and all move but one, thus in the world.
“Holds on his rank unshak’d of motion”; is fixed in his ideas and unmoved by prayers and petitions.
“And that I am he”; and I am that one immovable man.