 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 512 pages
...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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1854 - 352 pages
...arose, fresh as the morning, to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to pursue it; and lie can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. 6. Every psalm improved infinitely upon his acquaintance with it, and no one gave him uneasiness but... | |
 | Episcopal Church, Thomas Church Brownell - 1855 - 812 pages
...i:< k : the silence of the night invited liim to pursue it; and he can truly say that food and rvst were not preferred before it. Every psalm improved...uneasiness but the last; for then he grieved that his work was done. Happier hours than those which he spent upon these meditations on the Songs of Sion, he never... | |
 | William Henry R. Jones - 1857 - 284 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. Happier hours than those which have been spent in its preparation he never expects to see in this world.... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 562 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 on these meditations on the Songs of Sion,... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 436 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...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,... | |
 | Health - 1858 - 374 pages
...task, the silence of the night invited him to pursue it, and he can truly say that food and rest Yfere not preferred before it. Every psalm improved infinitely...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 Zion... | |
 | 1858 - 628 pages
...He arose fresh as the morning to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to peruse it ; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. Happier hours than those which have been spent in composing them he never expects to see in this world:... | |
 | Timothy East - Christian life - 1858 - 638 pages
...He arose fresh as the morning to his task ; the silence of the night invited him to peruse it ; and he can truly say, that food and rest were not preferred before it. Happier hours than those which have been spent in composing them he never expects to see in this world:... | |
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 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 on these meditations on the Songs of Zion,... | |
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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... 
