| Children - 530 pages
...and, in regard to some, turned them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God ! " O 'tis a lovely thing for youth To walk betimes in wisdom's way." Such are eminently favored and highly honored of the King of kings : they rank with the Samuels, and... | |
| Isaac Watts - English poetry - 1807 - 410 pages
...delay What others learnt so soon ? I would not pass another day Without this work begun. AGAINST LYING. O 'TIS a lovely thing for youth To walk betimes in...speak the truth, That we may trust to all they say, Bnt liars we can never trust, Though they should speak the thing that's true ; And he that does one... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...XV. AGAINST LYING. O 'TIS a lovely thing for youth To walk hetimes in wisdom's way; To fear a lie, io speak the truth, That we may trust to all they say. But liars we can never trust, Though they should speak the thing that's true ; And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...others leara'd so soon ? 1 would not pass another day Without this work begun. SONG XV. 4 GAINST LYING. O 'TIS a lovely thing for youth To walk betimes in wisdom's way; TH fear a lie, to speak the truth, ' That we may trust to all they say. SONG xm. THE DANGER OF DELAY.... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1812 - 586 pages
...and ever. Amen. Our Father which art, &c. — May the grace, &c. DIVINE SONGS. .•Jr., if/r! Lying. O 'tis a lovely thing for youth, To walk betimes in...to speak the truth, That we may trust to all they sayBut liars we can never trust, Though they should speak the thing that's true, And he that does one... | |
| Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...learn so soon ? I would not pass another day Without this work beguu. SONG XV. Aijainst Lying. 1 О 'Tis a lovely thing for youth To walk betimes in wisdom's way j To fear a lye, to speak the truth, That we may trust to all they say. 2 But lyars we can never trust,... | |
| Robert May - 1819 - 400 pages
...HYM'N. I • ' • -• • Against Lying. O 'tis a lovely thing for youth, To walk betimes in wisdom'* way; To fear a lie, to speak the truth, That we may trust to til they say. But liars we can never trust, (true; Though they should apeak the thing that'j For he... | |
| Anne Tuke Alexander - 1819 - 116 pages
...begun/ 7^ Against .Lying;O JTIS a lovely thing-fat youth To walk betimes in -wisdom's *vay ; To tear a lie, to speak 'the truth, " ' ,' That we may .trust to all they saf. But liars we can«ever trust,' Tho' they should speak the,.thing that's tru€; And he that does... | |
| Tracts - 1820 - 310 pages
...others learnt so soon ? Let me not pass another day Without this work begun. SONG XV. Against lying. O 'TIS a lovely thing for youth, To walk betimes in wisdom's way; To tear a lie, to speak the truth, ' That we may trust to all they say. But liars wa can never trust,... | |
| Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - Crime - 1824 - 528 pages
...second. Our young readers will do well to recollect the follow, ing lines of the pious Dr. Watts : ' O 'tis a lovely thing for youth To walk betimes in...speak the truth, That we may trust to all they say.' Those in the married stale who peruse this story will be particularly struck with the following words... | |
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