 | Biography - 1814 - 538 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 540 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 psalm improved infinitely on his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but the last ; for then he grieved that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...Kim to purfue it l and he can truly fay, that food ariS reft vere not preferred before it Every pfalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneafmefs but the laf t : for then he grieved that his •work was done. Happier hours than thole which... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...arose, fresh as the mornir.g, to his task ; the silence of th« 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 - 1816 - 1082 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,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 886 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...uneasiness but the last ; for then he grieved that bis work was done. Happier hours than those which have been spent in these medita- * tions on the Songs... | |
 | Robert Barnard - 1816 - 178 pages
...past occupation in this animated manner. " Every Psalm iin" proved infinitely on the commentator's 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,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 550 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...uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than those which have been spent on these meditations on the Songs of Sion,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 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...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 - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...invited him to pursue it ; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not prefeired before it. 6. Every psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasines hut the last : for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than those which... | |
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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... 
