Our only comfort is that we have a God to lean upon, although we walk in darkness and see no light. I shall not trouble your Highness with any complaints of myself, of the indisposition of my body, or troubles of my mind ; my many infirmities will one... The Shipwrecked mariner - Page 1871872Full view - About this book
| William Hepworth Dixon - 1852 - 478 pages
...our mariners (which I most apprehend) apt to fall into discontents through their long keeping abroad. Our only comfort is that we have a God to lean upon, although we walk in darkness and see no light. I shall not trouble your Highness with any complaints of myself, of the indisposition of my body, or... | |
| 1858 - 592 pages
.... . [Here follow further accounts of their difficulties, and that they had put into Lisbon.] . . . Our only comfort is that we have a God to lean upon, although we walk in darkness and see no light. / shall not trouble your Highness with any complaints of myself, of the indisposition of my body, or... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pages
.... . [Here follow further accounts of their difficulties, and that they had put into Lisbon.] . . . Our only comfort is that we have a God to lean upon, although we walk in darkness and sec no light. / «A«// not trouble your Highness with any complaint» of myself, of the indisposition... | |
| Alfred Henry Alston - 1860 - 498 pages
...performance of divine service in the fleet ; and the result of this God-seeking was that in six months he made the name of Englishmen feared and respected from...Thurloe, and dated " aboard the ' Naseby,' in St. Helen's Road, March 15th, 1656," after some allusions to certain sudden political transactions, there occurs... | |
| 1873 - 972 pages
...writing this in a despatch to his Government, which Admiral Blake sent to the Lord Protector — " Our only comfort is that we have a God to lean upon, although we walk in darkness and see no light." This was after describing the wretched condition of his squadron. I do not see why such language of... | |
| Alfred Henry Alston - 1871 - 648 pages
...performance of divine service in the fleet ; and the result of this God-seeking was that in six months he made the name of Englishmen feared and respected from...Thurloe, and dated "aboard the 'Naseby* in St. Helen's Road, March 151)1, 1656," after some allusions to certain sudden ; V;itical transactions, there occurs... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1883 - 298 pages
...describing some trials his brave sailors had to bear, and lightly referring to his own sufferings : " Our only comfort is that we have a God to lean upon, although we walk in darkness, and see no light. I shall not trouble Your Highness with any complaints of myself, of the indisposition of my body, or... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1883 - 272 pages
...describing some trials his brave sailors had to bear, and lightly referring to his own sufferings : " Our only comfort is that we have a God to lean upon, although we walk in darkness, and see no light. I shall not trouble Your Highness with any complaints of myself, of the indisposition of my body, or... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1884 - 462 pages
...describing some trials his brave sailors had to bear, and lightly referring to his own sufferings : " Our only comfort is that we have a God to lean upon, although we walk in darkness, and see no light. I shall not trouble Your Highness with any complaints of myself, of the indisposition of my body, or... | |
| Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - 1890 - 472 pages
...paper with his right hand, before he read the words aloud : — " ' My only comfort is that we have God to lean upon, although we walk in darkness and see no light, — consoling myself in the mean time in the Lord, and in the firm purpose of my heart with all faithfulness... | |
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