 | Anne Ross COLLINSON - 1837 - 204 ページ
...those days 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, without... | |
 | 1838 - 938 ページ
...three 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...news. Their answers form what men experience call." There can be no experience, worth the name, without communion with heaven. The worldly-wise man is... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1885 - 420 ページ
...for confirmation; also to Magic Staff, p. 529. CHAPTER IV. A LIFK OF UNSELFISH LOVE AND DUTY. " T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask...And how they might have borne more welcome news." WHATEVER is shallow is turbulent. The profound, the very deep, is tranquil. If you want to be miserably... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1885 - 420 ページ
...Magia Staff, p. 529. CHAPTER IV. A LIFE OF UNSELFISH LOVE AND DUTY. " 'T is greatly wise to talk witli our past hours, And ask them what report they bore...And how they might have borne more welcome news." WHATEVER is shallow is turbulent. The profound, the very deep, is tranquil. If you want to be miserably... | |
 | Edgar Perry - 1886 - 160 ページ
...are true — " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they've borne to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome...news ; Their answers form what men experience call." Youth and prophecy have their eyes on the to-morrows of life-age and history on the yesterdays, while... | |
 | 1886 - 588 ページ
...in such a way that we shall say regretfully : " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, Auil ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome new*." Perform every duty deliberately, carefully and honestly. Be kind, be good, be true, and strive... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - 1887 - 422 ページ
...to sea, his prayer is, "Keep me my God, for my boat is so small and Thy ocean is so wide." 15. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. 10. The happiest man is he who, being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1887 - 270 ページ
...have grace, • v » [As maids of honour, beauty, [by their place. EXPERIENCE.— Toung. * •* , 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them . . . what report they brought to heaven; tPl v ^ Tr v , / * ^ And how they might have borne . . . more welcome news. 3Jf... | |
 | James Wolfendale - 1887 - 456 ページ
...days past ; for time, like tide, stays for no man. " 'Tie greatly wise to talk with our past honre, And ask them what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might hare borne more welcome news." Let us then summon our past days, and ask what they have to say. First,... | |
 | K. L. Armstrong - 1889 - 460 ページ
...Happy the mnn who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that checker life ! — Cowper. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours. And ask them what report they bore to heaven. — Young. Kind hearts are more than coronets. And simple faith than Norman blood. — Tennyson. Tis... | |
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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. 
