| Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...last, And shuts the scene." Our closing pages shall be homiletic, since Young admonishes us that — "We take no note of Time, But from its loss ; to give it then a tongue Is wise in man." Time is the universal talent, subjecting every man living to a charge and an account. Within its circles... | |
| Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...last, And shuts the scene." Our closing pages shall be homiletic, since Young admonishes us that — "We take no note of Time, But from its loss ; to give it then a tonguc Is wise in man." Time is the universal talent, subjecting every man living to a charge and an... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...life stood still, and nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. Night i. Line 55. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. Night i. Line 67. Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. • Night i. Line 154. ' To waft a feather... | |
| Nathaniel Dearborn - Cemeteries - 1857 - 66 pages
...drest, ISAAC WILLIAMS. LOT 142, WILLOW AVENUE. " The bell strikes one. We take no note of lime Bui from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man.— if heard aright, It is the knell of our departed hour-. Where are they ? With the years beyond the... | |
| Louis Direy - 1858 - 186 pages
...indefinite individual: Intensity is the great and prominent distinction of Byron's writings. Haditt. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But...its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. Young. She then prepared for the block, by taking off her veil and upper garments. Robertson. Earth... | |
| 1858 - 930 pages
...even in the punishment. — Paxtoris Illustrations of Scriptures. THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE YEAR. " The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue fs wise in man. As if an Angel spoke, 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright. It is the knell of... | |
| Clement Carlyon - Physicians - 1858 - 520 pages
...the sermon were, " The poet Young has commenced a Book of his " Night Thoughts" thus:— The clock strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it, then, a tongue la wise in man." His Lordship proceeded to expatiate on the necessity of having our attention called... | |
| Woodbury Melcher Fernald - Providence and government of God - 1859 - 466 pages
...through infinity and eternity. Oh, wonderful and mighty contemplation ! How applicable to mortal man ! " We take no note of time But from its loss ; to give it then n tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. * * * " My hopes and fears... | |
| Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...up the solemn lay, Sing His blest Name, then soar away, And ask an angel's lyre. • OGILVIE. TIME. THE bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from his loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If... | |
| Frederic Dan Huntington - Christian life - 1860 - 544 pages
...midnight, heard the clock strike one. It brought instantly to his mind words he had once read. • " The bell strikes one, — we take no note of time But from its loss. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hoars. "Where arc they?" And that course of sober thinking,... | |
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