| Robert Green Ingersoll, Isaac Newton Baker - 1892 - 458 pages
...find no rest ; that their lives should hang in perpetual doubt ; that in the morning they would say : Would God it were evening ! and in the evening, Would God it were morning ! and that he would finally take them back to Egypt where they should be again sold for bondmen and bondwomen.... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery (comp.) - 1892 - 426 pages
...there shall have to till the ground in the sweat of his brow : none there shall say in the morning, ' Would God it were evening !' and in the evening, ' Would God it were morning !' for life shall be in itself a joy. If we can but look at all this unselfishly, we may safely encourage... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1893 - 906 pages
...hungry I How many, having slept, yearn for sleep again ! Are there not those who say, in the morning, " Would God it were evening," and in the evening, " Would God it were morning ?" O thou Deliverer! wilt thou look upon all the trouble and suffering which thou seest among men unmoved?... | |
| William Garden Blaikie - 1894 - 534 pages
...but instead a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind ; their saying in the morning, Would God it were evening ! and in the evening, Would God it were morning ! — all this is portrayed in a way that can find fulfilment in the history of no other people, while... | |
| William Wilkinson - 1895 - 682 pages
...in the last three years, years when many a hopeful man has said, as men said of old, in the morning, 'would God it were evening, ' and in the evening, 'would God it were morning.' In all these years you have been teaching the Church that it is not in the halcyon days of prosperity... | |
| Thomas Hardy - 1899 - 352 pages
...me what I've been reading.' ' Ah, poor soul ! ' said granny. ' No doubt she says in the morning, " Would God it were evening," and in the evening, "Would God it were morning," like the disobedient woman in Deuteronomy.' Swithin, in the room overhead, had suspended his calculations,... | |
| Robert Green Ingersoll - 1901 - 608 pages
...find no rest ; that their lives should hang in perpetual doubt ; that in the morning they would say : Would God it were evening ! and in the evening, Would God it were morning ! and that he would finally take them back to Egypt where they should be again sold for bondmen and bondwomen.... | |
| Aaron Schuyler - 1902 - 472 pages
...facts of history. So cruel was their treatment, that in their despair they cried out in the morning, "Would God it were evening !" and in the evening, "Would God it were morning!" Even to this day the reproach and disabilities of the Jews are not wholly removed. Among the Fijians... | |
| 1849 - 456 pages
...they when he was done. But he will keep <m preaching, though bis hearers may " say in the morning. Would God it were evening! and in the evening. Would God it were morning!" And to any who should inquire when he will stop, there will be but one answer — Their worm dieth not... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1909 - 508 pages
...languishing under continual weakness, and groaning under most grievous pains, crying in the morning, "would God it were evening," and in the evening, " would God it were morning"; weary of going, weary of sitting, weary of standing, weary of lying, weary of eating, of speaking,... | |
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