 | Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - 1836 - 352 pages
...Wisdom thus instructed becomes provident for the future. Wisdom thus "Talks with its past hours And asks them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." Unless then we have already attained to perfection, which Paul was far from claiming for himself, we... | |
 | George Pritchard (Baptist.) - 1837 - 472 pages
...serenity. O, my soul, what shall I render! ' '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.'" A further selection from the sententious and judicious reflections, mingled with devout aspirations,... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 pages
...profitable, if not always pleasant, to receive a visit from the spectres of our past hours: " And ask them what report they bore to Heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." We now return to the more immediate subject of this lesson. Again—perhaps you saj, that the most... | |
 | George Pritchard - 1837 - 504 pages
...serenity. O, my soul, what shall I render ! ' 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.' " A further selection from the sententious and judicious reflections, mingled with devout aspirations,... | |
 | 1838 - 938 pages
...But every hour is an angel — a messenger. " '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. Their answers form what men experience call." There can be no experience, worth the name, without communion... | |
 | Edward Young - 1839 - 300 pages
...The sun is darkness, and the stars are dust. '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. Their answers form what men experience call; If Wisdom's friend, her best; if not, worst foe. O reconcile... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1839 - 500 pages
...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 how they might have borne more welcome news. But, alas, how epidemical is this distemper ! — 'all men think all men mortal but themselves.' 1... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 pages
...house, turns out of doors his mind. Herbert. 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. SELF-EXAMINATION. Young. Psalm iv. 4; Ixxvii. 6. Lam. iii. 40. 1 Cor. xi. 28. 2 Cor. xiii. 5. Gal.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1840 - 844 pages
...the space which divides us from eternity : " 'Tie greatly wise to talk with onr past honre, And ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borno more welcome news." Yet as to those who seek a short annual retreat as a mere fonn ; who dignify... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1841 - 312 pages
...Aqd for us, erring, sinning men, it is greatly wise to listen, " To talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." The ancient philosophers earnestly recommended to their followers, to appropriate a part of each evening... | |
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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. 
