 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1860 - 266 pages
...he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that...him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled. What preacher need moralize on this story? what... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that...him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled. What preacher need moralize on this story ; what... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 1002 pages
...he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, nnd then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that...him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled. What preacher need moralize on this story ? what... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that...him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled. What preacher need moralize on this story ; what... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...he had finished, he knelt down arid prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that...him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled. What preacher need moralize on this story; what... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that it might please God to avert his heavy calamity SPECIMEN OP THACKERAY'S PROSE. 493 from him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Chronology, Historical - 1862 - 880 pages
...he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that...him, but, if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled. ' What preacher need moralise on this story ;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that...him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled. What preacher need moralize on this story ; what... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that...him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled. What preacher need moralise on this story ? what... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - 822 pages
...he had finished he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then, for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that it might please G~od to avert hia heavy calamity from him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then bnrst into tears,... | |
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Some slight lucid moments he had ; in one of which, the queen, desiring to see him, entered the room, and found him singing a hymn, and accompanying himself at the harpsichord. When he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for... 
