 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...time, and did it not. If you give account for every idle word, much more for every idle hour. Baxter. '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. YOUNG. However it may prove an hard saying... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 128 pages
...learn'd the fond pursuit to shun, Where few can reach their purpos'd aim, And thousands daily are undone. *Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them what report they bore to Heav'n. All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction which thou canst not see ; All... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 268 pages
...learu'd the fond pursuit to shun, Where few can reach the purpos'd aim, And thousands daily are undone. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to Heav'n. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All... | |
 | Baptists - 1829 - 894 pages
...FOR THE NEW YEAR. IT has been said, by one of the most original and sublime of the English poets, " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven." One of the purposes for which the faculty of memory was given us, is, to enable us to recaí the events... | |
 | Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie - Sermons, American - 1829 - 444 pages
...has been the tendency of our conduct, and the tenor of our desires. It is a fit moment for us all " To talk with our past hours, " And ask them what report they bare to heaven." . The young, who, trusting in their strength and vigour, looking forward in imagination... | |
 | Baptists - 1830 - 396 pages
...REFLECTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR. IT has been said, by one of the most original and sublime of the English poets, "'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven." One of the purposes for which the faculty of memory was given us, is, to enable us to recal the events... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 pages
...learn'd the fond pursuit to shun, Where few can reach their purpos'd aim, And thousands daily are undone. Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them what report they bore to Hcav'a. All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction which thou canst not see ; All... | |
 | Harriet Newell, Leonard Woods - Funeral sermons - 1830 - 244 pages
...nothing. Let our imaginations often wing their way back to those hours which can never be recalled. " Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, " And ask them what report they've born to heaven, " And how they might have borne more welcome news." Will the recollection of... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 pages
...death familiar to our minds, although he be the king of terrors, and stimulate ourselves to converse with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven, and bow they might have borne more welcome news. But, alas, how epidemical is this distemper! — ' all... | |
 | Harriet Newell - Missionaries - 1831 - 282 pages
...nothing. Let our imaginations often wing their way back to those hours which can never be recalled. " "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." Will the recollection of... | |
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Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them, what report they bore to Heav'n. 
