 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 532 sider
...engrossed all his thoughts. Fuller gives it as a well-authenticated fact, that "Mr. Sutton used often to repair into a private garden, where he poured forth...hesitating only how he was to dispose of it in his lite-time, could not be long without advisers. It appears indeed to have been a general topic of curiosity,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 530 sider
...engrossed all his thoughts. Fuller gives it as a well-authenticated fact, that " Mr. Sutton used often to repair into a private garden, where he poured forth...manner Mr. Sutton would bestow his wealth, and in 1 608 a very singular instance of impertinent interference occurred. At that time a report was spread... | |
 | 1816 - 526 sider
...repair into a private garden, where he poured forth his prayers to God, and was frequently overbeard to use this expression, ' Lord, thou hast given me...heart to make use thereof.' " A man of his property, hesftating only how he was to dispose of it in his life-time, could not be long without advisers. It... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1837 - 888 sider
...repair into a private garden, where he poured forth his prayers to God ; and, amongst other passages, was frequently overheard to use this expression :...estate; give me also a heart to make use thereof; " which at last was granted to him accordingly. As for the overgrown hospital of the Annunciata at... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 sider
...heard it from a credible witness, who heard it himself and told it me, Mr. S. used often to repair unto a private garden, where he poured forth his prayers...estate; give me also a heart to make use thereof!' "—or to the man who was accustomed in dear years of grain to buy large quantities, and then retail... | |
 | 1841 - 502 sider
...our wealthy merchants might then be expected to pray, with the pious founder of the Charter-House, ' Lord, thou hast given me a large and liberal estate, give me also a heart to make use thereof.' If the cathedral, acting under the auspices of the bishop, should thus lead the way, other churches... | |
 | John Stow - 1842 - 252 sider
..."the masterpiece of Protestant English charity," Sir Thomas Sutton, the man whose pious prayer was, " Lord, thou hast given me a large and liberal estate ; give me also a heart to make use thereof l "—will be found in Knight's Landou, ii. 113—132. OF LONDON. Suburbs without tbe walls. Monuments... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1842 - 650 sider
...well-known fact, that he used to pray fervently to God, expressing himself in the following words : " Lord, thou hast given me a large and liberal estate ; give me also a heart to make use of it." The Charter-house was purchased by him for £l3,000, and he endowed it with the bulk of his... | |
 | John Stow - 1842 - 250 sider
...the masterpiece of Protestant English charity,'' Sir Thomas Sutton, the man whose pious prayer was, " Lord, thou hast given me a large and liberal estate ; give me also a heart to make use thercofl"—will be found in Knight's London, ii. 113—132. length came to London, and overspread... | |
 | Erskine Neale - 1848 - 478 sider
...Charterhouse, used often to repair to a private garden, where he poured forth his prayers to GOD : ' LOED, THOU hast given me a large and liberal estate ; give me also a heart to make use thereof?" — ENGLAND'S WORTHIES. SHTJTE BARRINGTON, DD, successively Bishop of Salisbury and Durham, may be... | |
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Fuller gives it as a well-authenticated fact, that " Mr. Sutton used often to repair into a private garden, where he poured forth his prayers to God, and was frequently overheard to use this expression, ' Lord, thou hast given me a large and liberal estate,... 
