 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 էջ
...a finer picture of a charitable and goodnatured man than is to be met with in any other author. ' ' Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...when by his light I walked through darkness: When the Almighty was yet with me; when my children were about me: When I washed my steps with butter, and the... | |
 | 1819 - 488 էջ
...the traveller01. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor" ? Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me0. When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, then it gave witness to me... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 440 էջ
...it is that makes me, in the words of my admired exclaimer, very little altered, often repeat: ' O ! that I were as in months past! as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness! As I was in the days of my childhood—when the Almighty was yet with me ; when / was in my father... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1820 - 358 էջ
...and enjoyments of life have their full taste and relish. So Job describes the days of his youth, 0 that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness, as I was in the days of my youth, 4-c. Thou art inexcusable, 0 man, whoever than art, if thou art unmindful... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1820 - 346 էջ
...said, Oh ! that I were as in months past, in the days when God preserved me; when liis candle shincd upon my head, and when by his light, I walked through darkness. 2. As it was with me in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle ; when... | |
 | 1821 - 270 էջ
...darkness and perplexity ; I deplore my unhappy stale, and refleet upon niv departed pleasures. " Oh thai I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; when his eandle shined upon my head, and wheu by his light I walked through darkness." 6. But ehanges are not... | |
 | John Logan - 1821 - 250 էջ
...his time, as we learn from his affecting complaint, when he reviewed the days of his prosperity : " O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me ; as in the days of my youth, when the candle of the Lord shined upon my head, when the Almighty was... | |
 | 1822 - 788 էջ
...finer picture of a charitable and good-natured man than is to be met with in any other author. 1 On that I were as in months past, as in the days when...by his light I walked through darkness : when the Almighty was yet with me ; when my children were about me ; •when I washed my steps with butter,... | |
 | Mary Anne Davis - 1822 - 134 էջ
...for man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God(g-). Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when...head, and when by his light I walked through darkness (A)! O that I had wings like a dove! then would I flee away and be at rest(z'): then would I (c) Psalm... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 340 էջ
...remembrance of former intercourse betwixt me and heaven there, and say with Job, " O that it were with me as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me, when his candle shined upon my head, when by his light I walked through darkness, when the Almighty was yet with me, when I put on righteousness,... | |
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OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness... 
