 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...of the company told him, "he had disjMiraged himself by so dirty an employment," his answer "as, " that the thought of what he had done would prove music...that place ; for if I be bound to pray for all that are in distress, I am sure that I am bound, as far as is in D?J power, to practise that I pray for.... | |
 | George Herbert - 1841 - 394 pages
...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;"...that the thought of what he had done, would prove mnsic to him at midnight; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his... | |
 | George Herbert - 1841 - 422 pages
...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 the thought of what he had done, would prove mnsic to him at midnight ; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1842 - 276 pages
...told them the reason, one of them said that he had ' disparaged himself by so mean an employment.' But his answer was that, the thought of what he had done,...at midnight, and that the omission of it would have made discord in his conscience, whenever he should pass that place. 'For if,' said he, 'I ar» bound... | |
 | Present - Christian literature - 1843 - 236 pages
...that he had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment ;'' to which he answered, " that the thoughts of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight,...conscience whensoever he should pass by that place ; for," added he, " if I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound, so far as... | |
 | Isaac Williams - 1843 - 364 pages
...bow'd to earth it sings. " See an anecdote in Walton's Life of Herbert, p. 83, Oxford edit. 1805. " His answer was, that the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight." BUTLER. I saw within a glass vast worlds of light, Launch'd multitudinous on the shoreless sea, While,... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - Great Britain - 1844 - 444 pages
...musical companions, and some of them reproved him for a condescension beneath his dignity ; his reply was : — " That the thought of what he had done would...conscience, whensoever he should pass by that place. For," said he, " if I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound, so far as... | |
 | Religion - 1844 - 484 pages
...for an act of kindness that was esteemed rather a degrading one, there was a beauty in his reply : " That the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight." And oh! is not this, in truth, the case with many a true Christian ? Does he not muse with pleasure upon... | |
 | Christianity - 1845 - 614 pages
...clean, came in Knob a condition ; but he told them the occasion. And when one of the company told him, " 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, whensoever he should pass... | |
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 228 pages
...said to him, " he had disparaged himself by so mean an employment," his answer was, that " he thought what he had done would prove music to him 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... | |
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He had disparaged himself by so dirty an employment,' his answer was, 'That the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight; and that the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience, whensoever he should... 
