 Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent...  The British Essayists;: Tatler - Page 266by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 532 pages
...profit, hut mis- spent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hathl>een a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. -Be merciful unto me, 0 Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me unto thy bosom, ar guide me in thy ways." THE GUARDIAN,... | |
 | James Spedding - 1881 - 480 pages
...exchangers where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit; so as I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the...me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways." Such were the secret meditations of his heart during the... | |
 | James Spedding - 1881 - 460 pages
...exchangers where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit ; so as I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, 0 Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways." Such were the... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...: so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger (as doing the things for which I was least Jit) in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive nie into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways. (1) Courts. Some copies have " the courts.'' (2) Comfortable,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit, so as I may truly say my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage.1 It is the old text again, multum incola. With this Bacon's life begins, and with this... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit; so as I may truly say my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage." Too late did he now acknowledge to himself and his God that bis great g1fts had indeed been misused,... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 252 pages
...gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have misspent in things for which I was least fit ; so as I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me (0 Lord) for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways. " Bacon up... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 392 pages
...exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit : so as I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage." " Death," says Bacon, " openeth the door to good fame," but a thinking posterity, though recognising... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 540 pages
...exchangers, where it might have made most profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit, so as I may truly say my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage." So it remains even to the last ; and, in giving to the world his great work, the De Augmentis (1623),... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1888 - 306 pages
...gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have misspent in things for which I was least fit; so as I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the...me (O Lord) for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways. Bacon up to this time, strangely, if the Committees were "open... | |
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