 | George Herbert - 1902 - 280 pages
...praise and my relief: With care and courage building me, Till I reach heaven, and much more, Thee. MAN MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...is Man ? to whose creation All things are in decay. A beast, yet is, or should be more : Reason and speech we only bring. Parrots may thank us, if they... | |
 | Edward Increase Bosworth - 1905 - 314 pages
...advantages to the disciple of this association. What is His relation to the Church in the world ? " My God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately...Man ? to whose creation All things are in decay." " More servants wait on Man Than he'll take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth... | |
 | George Herbert - 1905 - 506 pages
...that compared with this creature all other things must be conceived as undeveloped and chaotic. MAN MY God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately...What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, then is Man ? To whose creation All things are in decay. 6 7. The doctrine here announced was common... | |
 | George Herbert - 1906 - 288 pages
...praise and my relief; With care and courage building me Till I reach heav'n, and much more thee. Man. My God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately...What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, then is Man ? to whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is ev'ry thing, And more : he is a... | |
 | Watson Surr - 1908 - 194 pages
...stanzas are here quoted almost at random ; the whole piece is worth reading and, what is more, studying. My God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately...can be, than is Man ? to whose creation All things arc in decay. For us the winds do blow, The Earth doth rest, Heaven move, and fountains flow ; Nothing... | |
 | Adeline Cashmore - 1910 - 192 pages
...Of living Death and dying Life. For while thou sweetly slayest me, Dead to my self, I live in Thee. MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately...is ev'rything, And more : He is a tree, yet bears no fruit ; A beast, yet is, or should be more : Reason and speech we only bring. Parrots may thank... | |
 | 1910 - 332 pages
...stone That turneth all to gold; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for lesse be told. MAN My God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately...What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, then is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay. 59 For Man is ev'ry thing, And more; he is... | |
 | George Herbert - 1913 - 364 pages
...praise and my relief ; With care and courage building me Till I reach heav'n, and, much more, Thee. MAN MY God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately...What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, then is Man ? to whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is ev'ry thing, And more: he is 'a... | |
 | Louise Collier Willcox - 1917 - 330 pages
...stone That turneth all to gold; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for lesse be told. MAN My God, I heard this day That none doth build a stately...What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, then is Man ? to whose creation All things are in decay. 59 For Man is ev'ry thing, And more; he is... | |
 | Louise Collier Willcox - 1917 - 330 pages
...habitation But he that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, then is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay. For Man is ev'ry thing, And more; he is a tree, yet bears mo' fruit; A beast, yet is, or should be, more: Reason... | |
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MY God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation But he that means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man ? to whose creation All things are in decay. 
