| Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 страница
...fow. A woman of true fenfe, will be always ambitious not of gaining admiration, but of deferving it. Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand uo worthy action done. Of all the virtues, there are none ought more to be inculcated into the mind... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1835 - 324 страница
...loved the girl as I now hope to love her, that is, if she will love me—as a brother. CHAPTER II. " Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views...given them good counsel," said a lady, whose darling son had just been sent to sea, as the last scheme parental anxiety could devise for his reformation.... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1835 - 312 страница
...I now hope to love her, that is, if she will love me — as a brother. CHAPTER II. " Count that Any lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand...given them good counsel," said a lady, whose darling son had just been sent to sea, as the last scheme parental anxiety could devise for his reformation.... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1853 - 344 страница
...SABBATH. "THE lost sabbath! How could a sabbath be lost?" we seem to hear one say. •" Count tluit day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done," is the language of the poet. But a sabbath lost is a greater loss, as much greater as the sabbath is... | |
| 1856 - 1270 страница
...or.e day without doing good, he entered upon his diary this memorial — '•' I have lost a day." Count that day lost, whose low descending sun, Views from thy hand no worthy action done. Let man toil to win his living, Work is not a task to spurn ; Poor's the gold of others' giving. To... | |
| Elisha Smith Capron - 1854 - 380 страница
...When we shall retire this night, may some deed or word of ours be active for good while we sleep. " Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." APRIL 29th. The day-god was abroad in his majesty this morning long before I left my pillow — the... | |
| 1855 - 488 страница
...let slip one day without doing good, he entered upon his diary this memorial: " I have lost a day." Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. We read in the Scriptures, that Boaz, in the midst of riches, was laborious, diligent in husbandry,... | |
| John Brown - 1861 - 486 страница
...not necessary, for Ellen had already learned it from the other children.' The lines were these : " Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." " The wives of Watson and Oliver, as well as the wife of Captain Brown, were in the fullest sympathy... | |
| Richard Davis Webb - 1861 - 480 страница
...not necessary, for Ellen had already learned it from the other children.' The lines were these : " Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." " The wives of Watson and Oliver, as well as the •wife of Captain Brown, were in the fullest sympathy... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1866 - 328 страница
...to put it out to usury, are visible in all great men. With some, indeed, it is remarkable. " Think that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done," is an old epigram or distich in one of the many miscellanies in the British Museum.... | |
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