 | 1846 - 656 oldal
...opportunities for usefulness : make opportunities for usefulness. No longer cry with the sluggard " a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands." No longer cry with the slothful, "there is a lion in the way, a lion in the streets." Come out of yourselves.... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1845 - 68 oldal
...Choose a more peaceful image :—here, reveal'd Shines a small sample of my golden hoards. SLOTH. " A LITTLE more sleep, a little more slumber, A little more folding the hands to sleep," For quick-footed dreams, without order or number, Over my mind are beginning to... | |
 | 1846 - 508 oldal
...this cold-hearted professor, this guilty backslider in the church, may fold up his hands and say, " a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." Death, judgment and eternity may be drawing on apace ; all their wonderful and sublime realities may... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1850 - 758 oldal
...convert me. P. But what if he should not? Here yon are, a stupid sinner, saying with the sluggard, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more foldIng of the hands to sleep," and resting upon a vague. Indefinite hope, that God will awaken yon ! What reason have you to expect... | |
 | Daniel Atkinson Clark, George Shepard - 1846 - 460 oldal
...and we cannot conceive of an impression more calculated to suppress all alarm. His cry will then be a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep : so shall his poverty come as one that travaileth, and their want as an armed man. On the other hand,... | |
 | William Henry Anderdon - 1847 - 80 oldal
...the Archangel with his trumpet of Judgment. High time, because, while we lie slothfully, and take " a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," the sun is going down in the vineyard, and the eleventh hour drawing on:— because life is a moment... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1847 - 336 oldal
...lead them from ruin ; they promise to hear at a more convenient season : they demand time for moving: 'A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep.' Hence we may account for many objections that are made to our labours. The sermon is too long, or too... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 532 oldal
...it' God had let you lie, you would willingly have slept on. Like the sluggard, you would have said, " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep ;" but he awoke you by his Word, by his ministers, or by his providence ; and he would not let you... | |
 | Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1847 - 580 oldal
...God had let you lie, you would willingly have slept on. Like the sluggard, you would have said : " A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep ;" but he awoke you by his Word — .by his ministers, or by his providence; and he would not let you... | |
 | M. O. Stevens - 1847 - 322 oldal
...also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh." SLOTH AND ACTIVITY. SLOTH. " A LITTLE more sleep, a little more slumber, A little more folding the hands to sleep," For quick-footed dreams, without order or number, Over my mind are beginning to... | |
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