| Elizabeth Dana - 1858 - 228 páginas
...discomposed; but he told them the reason, and one of them said to him, ' he had disparaged himself by so^niean an employment,' ;his answer was, that ' the thought...at midnight, and that the omission of it would have made discord in his conscience, whenever he should pass by that place.' ' For if,' said he, 'I am bound... | |
| Joseph Belcher - 1859 - 428 páginas
...appearance. On his friends noticing his plight and asking for an explanation, lie told them the story, adding that the thought of what he had done would prove " music to him at midnight." No one can regret that George Herbert was called away in the very midst of his holy life, before the... | |
| Joseph Belcher - 1859 - 418 páginas
...appearance. On his friends noticing his plight and asking for an explanation, he told them the story, adding that the thought of what he had done would prove " music to him at midnight." No one can regret that George Herbert was called away in the very midst of his holy life, before the... | |
| William Walters (Baptist Minister.) - 1861 - 424 páginas
...him " he had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment," Ins answer was " that the thought of whut he had done would prove music to him at midnight, and that the omission of it would have upbn.iUed and made discord in his conscience whensoever he should pass by that place ; for if I be... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1864 - 438 páginas
...occasion : and when one of the company told him He had disparaged himself by so dirty an employ' ment;" his answer was, "That the thought of what he had done,...at midnight; and that the omission of it would have uphraided and made discord in his conscience, whensoever he should pass by that place : for if I '... | |
| T. B. S. - 1866 - 312 páginas
...remarkably clean, should come in such a condition. He told them the cause, when one of the company remarked, "He had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment,"...had done would prove music to him at midnight ; and the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience, whenever he should pass... | |
| James Mason Hoppin - 1868 - 494 páginas
...friends and brother clergymen in Salisbury ; upon being rallied for such an unseemly operation, he said that, " the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight." Turning off the main road down a quiet lane, on one side of which is a thick wood, is the little church... | |
| 1869 - 404 páginas
...so soiled and discomposed ; but he told them the occasion ; and when one of the company told him, " he had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment...that place ; for, if I be bound to pray for all, that are in distress, I am sure that I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practise what I pray for.... | |
| Sir Arthur Helps - 1873 - 274 páginas
...company so soiled and discomposed, but he told them the occasion : and when one of the company told him ' he had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment,' his answer was ' that the thought of \vhat he had done would prove music to him at midnight ; and that the emission of it would have upbraided... | |
| Illustrated anecdotes, T. B. S. - 1874 - 228 páginas
...the cause, when one of the company remarked, "He had disparaged himself by so dirty an employtnint." His answer was, " That the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight, and the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience, whenever he should pass... | |
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