 | 1836 - 558 oldal
...The sun is darkness, and the stars are dust '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 call; If Wisdom's friend her best, if not, worst foe. O reconcile... | |
 | Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - 1836 - 352 oldal
...Wisdom thus instructed becomes provident for the future. Wisdom thus "Talks with its past hours And asks them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." Unless then we have already attained to perfection, which Paul was far from claiming for himself, we... | |
 | George Pritchard - 1837 - 504 oldal
...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 sententious and judicious reflections, mingled with devout aspirations,... | |
 | George Pritchard (Baptist.) - 1837 - 472 oldal
...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 sententious and judicious reflections, mingled with devout aspirations,... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 oldal
...profitable, if not always pleasant, to receive a visit from the spectres of our past hours: " And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." We now return to the more immediate subject of this lesson. Again—perhaps you saj, that the most... | |
 | 1838 - 938 oldal
...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 call." There can be no experience, worth the name, without communion... | |
 | Edward Young - 1839 - 300 oldal
...The sun is darkness, and the stars are dust. '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 call; If Wisdom's friend, her best; if not, worst foe. O reconcile... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 oldal
...house, turns out of doors his mind. Herbert. 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. SELF-EXAMINATION. Young. Psalm iv. 4; Ixxvii. 6. Lam. iii. 40. 1 Cor. xi. 28. 2 Cor. xiii. 5. Gal.... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1839 - 500 oldal
...although he be the king of terrors, and stimulate ourselves to converse with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news. But, alas, how epidemical is this distemper ! — 'all men think all men mortal but themselves.' 1... | |
 | Hannah More - 1840 - 844 oldal
...the space which divides us from eternity : " 'Tie greatly wise to talk with onr past honre, And ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borno more welcome news." Yet as to those who seek a short annual retreat as a mere fonn ; who dignify... | |
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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. 
