 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pagine
...moment pays, If nothing more than purpose in thy power ; Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed : WLo does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. Our outward act indeed admits restraint ; T is not in things o'er thought to domineer ; Guard well... | |
 | Jane Bowdler - 1830 - 312 pagine
...parts, but to endeavour to improve to the utmost those which he has assigned us ; and he " Who dotes the best his circumstance allows, " Does well, acts nobly ; Angels could no more." Be it then our study, in every kind of suffering, to recollect the duties which more particularly belong... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pagine
...mode or meant. — If nothing more than purpose in tliy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed. Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly — angels could no more." The service of God is very extensive, and is not to be confined to what many only mean by it. It reaches... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagine
...every moment pays. If nothing more than purpose in thy power; Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. Our outward act, indeed, admits restraint; 'Tis not in things o'er thought to domineer. Guard well... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - 1833 - 710 pagine
...thought to domineer. If nothing more than purpose is our power, Our purpose firm is equal to the deed. Who does the best his circumstance allows. Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. — YoUNG. Thus, well and wisely should a Christian female know her place and keep it. For her reward... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pagine
...or meant. » — If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed. Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly — angels could no more." The service of God is very extensive, and is not to be confined о what many only mean by it. It reaches... | |
 | George Miller - 1833 - 428 pagine
...some of whose words, I have elsewhere noticed as deserving to be written in letters of gold-f: — " Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, — angels could no more." Whether I have done, or rather, in all the various situations, positions, and conditions of life, in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1833 - 240 pagine
...embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed: 1Vfcc> does the b.est his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. ^, In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. To be resign'd... | |
 | R. Thomas (A.M.) - 1834 - 798 pagine
...any other point, mistakes shall be discovered, the editor claims the meed furnished by the poet — " Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more." In the present enlightened age, perhaps an error in the use of language will be the least likely to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 236 pagine
...pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed : Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly; angels could uo more. In faith and hope the world will disagree. But all mankind's concern is charity. To be resign'd... | |
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Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed : Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. 
