 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 страница
...walks with nature, and her paths are peace. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask Border chivalry ; For, well-a-day ! their date was fled ; His tuneful brethren all were dea answers form what men experience call ; If wisdom's friend her best, if not, worst foe. All-sensual... | |
 | Juvenile guide - 1844 - 166 страница
...that you are a moral and accountable being." " "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." 15. "Examine yourself impartially, remember thatyou arc liable to be misled by your passion, and the... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1844 - 904 страница
...And for us, erring, sinning men, it is greatly wise to listen, " To talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news." The ancient philosophers earnestly recommended to their followers, to appropriate a part of each evening... | |
 | Sunset - 1845 - 120 страница
...but confirmed its stability.— H. EDWARDS. " 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." AGED Friend!—Thy day is nearly gone— thy sun is setting—thine evening tide draws oil! How sets... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 страница
...the storms that howl across the sky. la greatly wise — to talk with our put houri, And oik Ihem— what report— they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne — more welcome new« ; Their ennoerf — form — what men — experience call. Я7О. CHEMISTRT — treats of the... | |
 | College of Physicians of Philadelphia - 1846 - 478 страница
...still small voice of conscience, and think it "Greatly wise to talk with their past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news;" Rather than to the loud claims of ambition — that insatiable thirsting for power and distinction,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1846 - 472 страница
...their own state particularly requires. '• '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." In silent and thoughtful meditation, it becomes them to walk as on the shore of that vast ocean upon... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1847 - 606 страница
...in italics in the following passage: — " 'T is 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. Their answers form what men experience call ; If wisdom's friend, her best ; if not, worst foe." SECTION... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 460 страница
...were, the space which divides us from eternity : 7Tis 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. Yet as to those who seek a short annual retreat as a mere form ; who dignify with the idea of a religious... | |
 | 1847 - 412 страница
...well able to overcome." Ç. THE CLOSING YEAR. " '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." YOUNG. ANOTHEU year, worn out with age, is about to share the fate of its ancestors, and mingle with... | |
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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. 
