| Edward Stallybrass - 1836 - 318 páginas
...heart. I wish I felt more frequently the import of that beautiful sentiment of Dr. Young, ' 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they've borne to heaven.' In the late increase of our little family,* I fear that I * By the arrival of the Rev. C. Rahmn, who... | |
| George Pritchard (Baptist.) - 1837 - 472 páginas
...carried me through the trying scene with great serenity. O, my soul, what shall I render! ' 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news.'" A further selection from the... | |
| George Pritchard - 1837 - 504 páginas
...carried me through the trying scene with great serenity. O, my soul, what shall I render ! ' Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news.' " A further selection from the... | |
| Anne Ross COLLINSON - 1837 - 204 páginas
...in silence and in solitude, I found to be no unprofitable engagement. Dr. Young says, ' T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours,' and ask them what report they bear to heaven. The report in my own case, I felt to be unspeakably humiliating, and could adopt,... | |
| Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 páginas
...brings me to a question of no smalt importance: If in the language of a British poet— " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven!" is it not equally wise to look forward to our future hours, and determine within... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1837 - 260 páginas
...pursuit to shun, Where few can reach the purpos'd aim, And thousands daily are undone. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to Heav'n. All nature is but art, unknown to tl'irc ; All chance, direction, which thou canst... | |
| 1838 - 602 páginas
...of looking back upon the past, and inquiring how it has been spent. Dr. Young says, " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask them what...Heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news." Is the report of our past hours what we could wish it to have been 1 Is it that all our duties... | |
| 740 páginas
...progeny in the concrete objects to which they were reduced The well-known couplet — " ' Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours And ask them what report they've borne to heaven," is represented by hours, " drawn as aerial and shadowy beings," some of whom are bringing t,.-ir scrolls... | |
| 1838 - 876 páginas
...hundred and sixty-five ghosts in the year. But every hour is an angel — a messenger. " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news. Their answers form what men experience... | |
| 1867 - 738 páginas
...progeny in the concrete objects to which they were reduced The well-known couplet — " ' Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours And ask them what report they've borne to heaven," is represented by hours, " drawn as aerial and shadowy beings," some of whom are bringing their scrolls... | |
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