 | Ernest Manly Taylor - 1908
...Agriculture and Statistics at Ottawa, "Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?" "Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours And ask them what report they gave to Heaven.' PREFACE IN offering this book to the people of Brome County I do so with a full consciousness... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 644 Seiten
...prayer, and the greatness of this necessity is in proportion to the greatness of evil. — Forrar. "Tie greatly wise to talk with our past hours and ask them what report they »ore to heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news. — Young. Meditation is the nurse... | |
 | 1894
...Salem. Taunton, MRS. AJ HOVEY, Judson. Worcester, MRS. EM OVERHOLSER, 168 Beacon St., Worcester. " 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And...report they bore to heaven, And how they might have carried better news." While we are to forget "those things which are behind and press forward to those... | |
 | Rev. S. Pollock Linn - 1881 - 446 Seiten
...soul without reserve to any human being, without danger of one day repenting my confidence. Burns. Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven. Young. REAL friendship is of slow growth. It seldom arises at first sight. Nothing but our vanity will... | |
 | James Terry White - 1909 - 102 Seiten
...PHILLIPS BROOKS. 24. They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. — LOWELL. 25. Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. — EDWARD YOUNG. 26. Keep close to duty. Never mind the future, if only you have peace of mind. Be... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910
...fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast. —THOMSON, JAMES, 1728, Spring, Seasons, 1. 1156. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And...; And how they might have borne more welcome news. —YOUNG, EDWARD, 1742, Night Thoughts, Night ii, 1. 376. Ah, happy hills 1 ah, pleasing shade I Ah... | |
 | Josephine Eunice Seaman - 1910 - 92 Seiten
...allowed myself to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. 21. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. 22. Each morning sees some task begin. 23. He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 761 Seiten
...enemy. 4301 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. 1. Canto iii. Line 607 RETROSPECTION — see Experience, Remembrance. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they've borne to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news, Their answers form what men... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 761 Seiten
...Butler: Hudibras. Ft. I Canto iii. Line 607 • RETROSPECTION — see Experience, Remembrance. "Pis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they've borne to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news, Their answers form what men... | |
 | Mary Smyth - 1912 - 328 Seiten
...approve Of great salvation, and if we Are sharers in this love. My Sabbaths " "Twere needful to converse with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to Heaven." Three years of Sabbaths I have lived and more — They all are gone and naught can them restore; Where... | |
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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. 
