 | Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 sider
...fow. A woman of true fenfe, will be always ambitious not of gaining admiration, but of deferving it. Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand uo worthy action done. Of all the virtues, there are none ought more to be inculcated into the mind... | |
 | 1832 - 606 sider
...AND LITERARY GAZETTE. VOL. V. MAY. No. V. SKETCHES OE AMERICAN CHARACTER. The Lloyds. CHAPTER 2. " Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." "It seems strange our children should be so perverse ; we have always given them... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1835 - 324 sider
...loved the girl as I now hope to love her, that is, if she will love me—as a brother. CHAPTER II. " Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." " It seems strange our children should be so perverse; we have always given them... | |
 | 1856 - 1270 sider
...or.e day without doing good, he entered upon his diary this memorial — '•' I have lost a day." Count that day lost, whose low descending sun, Views from thy hand no worthy action done. Let man toil to win his living, Work is not a task to spurn ; Poor's the gold of... | |
 | Elisha Smith Capron - 1854 - 380 sider
...When we shall retire this night, may some deed or word of ours be active for good while we sleep. " Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." APRIL 29th. The day-god was abroad in his majesty this morning long before I left... | |
 | 1855 - 488 sider
...let slip one day without doing good, he entered upon his diary this memorial: " I have lost a day." Count that day lost, whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. We read in the Scriptures, that Boaz, in the midst of riches, was laborious, diligent... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 486 sider
...not necessary, for Ellen had already learned it from the other children.' The lines were these : " Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." " The wives of Watson and Oliver, as well as the wife of Captain Brown, were in... | |
 | Richard Davis Webb - 1861 - 480 sider
...not necessary, for Ellen had already learned it from the other children.' The lines were these : " Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done." " The wives of Watson and Oliver, as well as the •wife of Captain Brown, were... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1866 - 328 sider
...to put it out to usury, are visible in all great men. With some, indeed, it is remarkable. " Think that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done," is an old epigram or distich in one of the many miscellanies in the British Museum. Its purport has... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 sider
...of David Krieg with Jacob Bobart's autograph, and the following verses.1 " Virtus sua gloria" Think that day lost whose [low] descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done. Bobart died about 1726. He was a son of the celebrated botanist of that name. Order reigns in Warsaw.... | |
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Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done. 
