 | 1854 - 672 Seiten
...TAKING GOD'S NAME IN VAIN. IT grieves me much to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to, on each trifling theme ! Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise,...wise : — You would not swear upon a bed of death ; Reflect ! your Maker NOW could stop your breath. CRONSTADT, AND THE WAR WITH RUSSIA. UNHAPPILY, at... | |
 | 1856 - 666 Seiten
...of ruining a precious soul — of causing a weak brother to perish .' PEES. MAHAN. PROFANE SWEARING. "To swear— is neither brave, polite nor wise: You would not swear upon the bed of death— Kofleot— your Maker now could stop your breath '. " DKOTIIKK S and myself were... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1850 - 226 Seiten
...sorrow for the wrong we have done, and a determination to do so no more. CHAPTER IV. REVERENCE TO GOD. " Maintain your rank ; vulgarity despise ; To SWEAR is neither brave, polite, nor wise." REVERENCE is a feeling of fear, mingled with the highest regard, and attended with a submissive and... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1850 - 224 Seiten
...sorrow for the wrong we have done, and a determination to do so no more. CHAPTER IV. REVERENCE TO GOD. " Maintain your rank ; vulgarity despise ; To SWEAR is neither brave, polite, nor \vise." REVERENCE is a feeling of fear, mingled with the highest regard, and attended with a submissive... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 288 Seiten
...respect of the good, and above all loses a respect for 7 himself. It is a work for devils : not menv. 8 " Maintain your rank : vulgarity despise : To swear...nor wise : You would not swear upon a bed of death' ; Reflect : your Maker now may stop your breath." DEFINITIONS, &c. — Profane swearing — all swearing... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...his soul ran for nought, as little fearing. Were I an epicure, I could 'bate swearing. G. 'Herbert. Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise, To swear is...nor wise; You would not swear upon a bed of death — Reflect — your Maker now may stop your breath. Anon. SWEETNESS. THE summer's flower is to the... | |
 | 1856 - 790 Seiten
...guilty of this foul sin ; for It chills my blood to bear the hiest Supreme Rudely appeal'd to on each trifling theme. Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise...is neither brave, polite, nor wise. You would not awear upon a bed of death ; Reflect — your Maker now could stop your breath ! An elector of Cologne,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 226 Seiten
...wickedness is not wisdom. " It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. Maintain your rank ; vulgarity despise...nor wise. You would not swear upon a bed of death ; Reflect, your Maker now may stop your breath." LXIV. — "CLEON AND I." CLEON hath a million acres,... | |
 | 1857 - 396 Seiten
...he never swore after that. "It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme, Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme; Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise,...nor wise. You would not swear upon a bed of death; Reflect, your Maker now may stop your breath." It is not " brave " to use profane words. The greatest... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1861 - 710 Seiten
...printed as follows : — " It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appeal'd to on each trifling theme. Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise...nor wise. You would not swear upon a bed of death ; Reflect — your Maker now could stop your breath." The gentlemen read it, and he who had sworn acknowledged... | |
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appeal'd to on each trifling theme; Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise, To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise; You would not swear upon a bed of death: Reflect! 
