| American literature - 1787 - 430 pages
...health changes, and ftrength abates ; but innocency is immortal, and a comfort both in life and death. GOD, who is liberal and generous in all his other gifts, teaches us, by the wife ceconomy of his providence, how circumfpeft we. ought to be in the right management of our time;... | |
| François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon (abp. of Cambrai.) - 1797 - 242 pages
...quarter of an hour will appear of more value, and more defirable, than all the riches of the univerfe. God, who is liberal and generous in all his other gifts, teaches us, by the wife ceconomy of his Providence, how circnmfpeft we ought to be in the right management of our time,... | |
| Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...[TUESDAY. IT is of the utmost importance that we improve our time. God who is liberal and generous in all other gifts, teaches us by the wise economy of his...circumspect we ought to be in the right management of our lime ; for he never gives us two moments together ; he gives us only the second as he takes away the... | |
| Charles Buck - Anecdotes - 1831 - 418 pages
...not overload it with a burden not its own." " God (says another,) who is liberal and gefleroiu in all other gifts, teaches us, by the wise economy of his...circumspect we ought to be in the right management of oar time ; for he never gives us two moments together ; he gives us only the second as he takes away... | |
| 1835 - 284 pages
...value to us than all the riches of the universe. GOD, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of his providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together, lie only gives us the second as... | |
| Adelaide Sophia Kilvert - Home economics - 1847 - 216 pages
...to be deplored ! The right use of this " material of which life is made" is a primary family duty. " God, who is liberal and "generous in all his other...teaches us, by " the wise economy of his providence, how circum" spect we ought to be in the right management " of our time, for he never gives us two moments... | |
| 1855 - 892 pages
...value to us than all the riches of the universe. God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of his providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together. He only gives us the second as... | |
| Henry Thompson (of Ackworth school.) - 1879 - 412 pages
...same manner. "It is often a. burden to us; we know not what to do with it and are embarrassed about it. " The day will come when a quarter of an hour...our time, for He never gives us two moments together ; lie gives us only the second as He takes away the first and keeps the third in his hands, leaving... | |
| Similitudes, B. S. - Quotations, English - 1882 - 136 pages
...the sandy bed of the rlver ' Longfellow. /""* OD, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows ^"^ us by the wise economy of His providence how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together. F&nelon. *HE garland forest, which... | |
| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 252 pages
...leaves no opening for the lurking fiend. Wilcox. God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us by the wise economy of his providence how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together. Fenelon. There are no fragments... | |
| |