 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...him to purfue it; and he can truly fay, that food and reft were not preferred before it. Every Pfalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneafmefs but the laft ; for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than thofe which... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1799 - 408 pages
...him to purfue it ; and he can truly fay, that food and reft were not preferred before it. Every pfalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneafinefs but the laft : for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than thofe which... | |
 | Robert Leighton - Theology - 1808 - 354 pages
...can truly say, that food and rest Avere not preferred before it. Every psalm improved infinitely on his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last ; for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than those which have been spent in these meditations on the songs of Sion,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...arose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it ; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred...with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last : ftv then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hoursthan those which have been spent in those... | |
 | Charles Peirce - Textbooks - 1811 - 268 pages
...arose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it ; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. ?very psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1811 - 286 pages
...to purfue it ; and he can truly fay, that food and reft, were not preferred before it. Every pfalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneafinefs but the ife : for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than thofe which... | |
 | George Horne, Lindley Murray - Bible - 1812 - 248 pages
...He arose, fresh as the morning to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred...uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than those which have been spent in these meditations on the songs of Sion,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 312 pages
...He rose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it ; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred...uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than those which have been spent in these meditations on the songs of Sion,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...He arose, fresh as the morning, to his task; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. Every palm improved infmitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasine? 5 but the last... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 pages
...he can truly say that food and rest were not preferred before it. Every psalm improved infinitely on his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than those which have been spent in these meditations on the songs of Sion... | |
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... and the noise of folly ; vanity and vexation flew away for a season, care and disquietude came not near his dwelling. He arose, fresh as the morning, to his task : the silence of the night invited him to pursue it ; and he can truly say, that food... 
