 | Girls' friendly society - 1880 - 614 pages
...he had done would prove music to him at mid night, and that the omission of it would have upbraided his conscience whensoever he should pass by that place....be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am surely bound, so far as is in my power, to practise what I pray for. And now let's tune our instruments."... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English literature - 1918 - 344 pages
...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...sure that I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for. And though I do not wish for the like occasion every day, yet let me tell... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English literature - 1924 - 324 pages
...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...sure that I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for. And though I do not wish for the like occasion every day, yet let me tell... | |
 | Francis Meehan - English literature - 1928 - 764 pages
...clergyman replied that the thought of what he had done would be music to him at midnight, and added : "If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress,...sure that I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for. An< though I do not wish for the like occasion every day, yet let me tell... | |
 | Joan Bennett - 168 pages
...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 69 sorts well with some of the most characteristic qualities of the poems. His perfect tact and delicate... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...snarls and incumbrances . Religion does not banish mirth, but only moderates and sets rules to it. If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure I am bound, so far as is in my power, to practise what I pray for. Such as the axioms which grace his... | |
 | Gordon C. Miller - Religion - 1996 - 191 pages
...employment, his answer was, that the thought of what he had done would prove music to him at midnight, and the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord...what I pray for. And though I do not wish for the occasion every day, yet let me tell you, I would not willingly pass one day of my life without comforting... | |
 | 1888 - 626 pages
...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...pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bonnd, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for; and though I do not wish for 'the... | |
 | 1876 - 806 pages
...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 upbraided and...whensoever he should pass by that place ; for if I am bound to pray for all that are in distress, I am bound, so far as it is in my power to practise... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, Joseph Henry Allen, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1890 - 588 pages
...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...whensoever he should pass by that place ; for, if J be bound to pray for all that be in distress, I am sure that I am bound, so far as it is in my power,... | |
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And when one of the company told him 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... 
