 | 1839 - 496 pages
...at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition...of which (supposing the two hours in question to be so spent) eight hours every day, should be spent in study and devotion. And Howard, so illustrious... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - Christian life - 1840 - 282 pages
...at five and seven in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to rest at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life." These allusions are made, to set more directly before the Christian reader the importance of the virtue... | |
 | Charles Buck - Anecdotes - 1841 - 520 pages
...seven of the clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition...question to be spent) eight hours, every day, should be spent in study and devotion.' ' The solemn stillness of the morning, just before break of day,' says... | |
 | John Cockin - 1843 - 480 pages
...at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition...of which (supposing the two hours in question to be so spent) eight hours every day should be employed in study and devotion." Doddridge on Rom. aiii.... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1847 - 592 pages
...at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life." In order to rise early, I would earnestly recommend an early hour for retiring. There are many other... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1846 - 740 pages
...seven of the clock in the morning for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life. — Doddridge. DR. ABAM CLARKE ON SLAVERY. — " How can any nation pretend to fast cr worship God... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Bible - 1847 - 832 pages
...supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour of the night, is nearly equivalent to the addition often years to a man's life; of which, (supposing the two hours in question to be so spent,) eight hours every day should be employed in study and devotion." And wantonness — Atrriynaif,... | |
 | Baptists - 1848 - 400 pages
...the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's...of which (supposing the two hours in question to be so spent) eight hours every day should be employed in study and devotion. I SUPERSTITION OF THE THALAMISTS.... | |
 | Advice - 1848 - 72 pages
...at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life." The practice of rising early in the morning is a mere affair of habit, which any one, with the least... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1858 - 682 pages
...at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life." The foregoing is quoted in Todd's Students Guide, in Wesley's sermon on Early Rising, and in Life doubled... | |
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I may say, that the production of this work and most of my other writings, is owing; viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night,... 
