 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 oldal
...study myself more than any other subject ; it is my metaphysic, it is my "physic. — Montaigne. It is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask...heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news. — Young. It is easy to look down on others ; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. — Landor.... | |
 | 1894 - 446 oldal
...to believe, because we know, is power, x, 145 To see Athens, one must have Athenian eyes, vii, 51 < 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,) \ And ask them what report? f "' To those who LOVE, there is a return from Hades to Light, vii, 147 Truth always has the vantage... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1894 - 362 oldal
...and these purposes the most dull and insignificant imaginable. " 'Twere greatly wise," says Young, " to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bear to Heaven." But meagre and unsatisfactory would have been the register of Mrs Ribley's doings,... | |
 | Henry Clay Badger - 1895 - 314 oldal
...invulnerable. So the Christian Palladium fell from Heaven to defend the Christian Church against Theology. " Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven." That was its first motto, and its first editorial on the Deformities of Sectarianism was an appeal... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1895 - 1120 oldal
...meeting is adjourned, the proper steps will be taken to carry this matter to a successful conclusion. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours. And ask them what report they bore to heaven. A COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS EDUCATION. I wish further to recommend that a committee, consisting of not... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 oldal
...self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. o. WORDSWORTH — The Excursion. Bk. IV. «. WM. BLAKE— The Schoolboy. St. 2. p. Yot-NO— Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 376. SELFISHNESS. It is difficult to persuade mankind that... | |
 | 1892 - 760 oldal
...loitered, the more let us henceforth redeem the time in self-devoting labours for the Lord [Fausset]. " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And...what report they bore to heaven, And how they might hare borne more welcome news" [Youny], ILLUSTRATIONS TO CHAPTER I. Ver. 1. In its very first day, when... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 oldal
...Them among There sat a man of ripe and perfect nge. Who did them meditate all his life long. SPENSER. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heav'n, And how they might have borne more welcome news. In this point MELANCHOLY. From other care... | |
 | Rebecca Price - 1896 - 210 oldal
...into the deepest recesses of our souls and see if the record stands fair in the sight of Heaven. " Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they 've offered up to Heaven; and how they might have borne more welcome news." And oh, ye burden-bearers... | |
 | 1897 - 184 oldal
...heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. EMERSON. Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. YOUNG. The little worries that we meet each day May lie as stumbling-blocks across our way, Or we may... | |
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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. 
