I rose this morning at a quarter before six, read a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and spent the time till seven in private addresses to God, and then attended family prayer with the servants in Bengalee. While tea was getting ready, I read a little in... William Carey: A Biography - Page 209by Joseph Belcher - 1853 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 562 pages
...view of my engagements for the present day, which is a specimen of the spending one-half of the week. I rose this morning at a quarter before six, read...spent the time till seven in private addresses to God, and then attended family prayer with the servants in Bengalee. While tea was getting ready, I read... | |
| Christopher Anderson - 1835 - 76 pages
...the present day, which is a specimen of the spending one-half of the week. I rose this morning afa quarter before six, read a chapter in the Hebrew Bible,...spent the time till seven in private addresses to God, and then attended family prayer with the servants in Bengalee. While tea was getting ready, I read... | |
| William Ellis - Gift books - 1837 - 284 pages
...extract from a letter addressed to a friend, and given as an apology for not writing, will shew :— " I rose this morning at a quarter before six, read...then attended family prayer with the servants, in Bengalee. While tea was getting ready, I read a little in Persian with a Moonshi, who was waiting when... | |
| William King Tweedie - Christian biography - 1840 - 278 pages
...following quotation will furnish a specimen of what consecrated zeal can achieve. Carey, it is said, " rose at a quarter before six, read a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and spent the time till seven in private devotions. He then had family prayer in Bengalee with the servants, after which he read Persian with... | |
| 1869 - 406 pages
...University, America. Henceforth he was known as Dr. Carey. Here is a specimen of one day's work : — " Rose a quarter before six ; read a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and spent the time till seven in private devotions. He then had family prayer in Bengallee with the servants ; after which he read Persian with... | |
| Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...friend, and given as an apology for not writing, will show : — " I rose this morning at a quarfer before six, read a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and...then attended family prayer with the servants, in Bengalee. While tea was getting ready, I read a little in Persian with a Moonshi, who was waiting when... | |
| Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...extract from one of his own letters to a friend, apologizing for not writing, will show :• — " I rose this morning at a quarter before six, read...Bengali. While tea was getting ready, I read a little Persian with a Moonshi, who was waiting when I left my bed-room; read also, before breakfast, a portion... | |
| John Clark Marshman - Baptists - 1859 - 618 pages
...the days which he spent in Calcutta, a private letter affords the following memorial : — "He rose at a quarter before six, read a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and spent the time till seven in private devotions. He then had family prayer in Bengalee with the servants, after which he read Persian with... | |
| Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - Missionaries - 1870 - 286 pages
...cause of the mission." Of his colossal labours an idea is given in the following letter, — " He rose at a quarter before six, read a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, and spent the time till seven in private devotions. He then had family prayer in Bengalee with the servants, after which he read Persian with... | |
| James Culross - Baptists - 1881 - 236 pages
...spent half the week. It is one of his days in Calcutta, and he is making an apology for not writing. " I rose this morning at a quarter before six, read...spent the time till seven in private addresses to God, and then attended family prayer with the servants in Bengali. While tea was getting ready, I read a... | |
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