| Hygiene - 1830 - 410 pages
...utensils are fairly worn out. To vary the figure, we may say that man is a harp of a thousand strings,—" strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long!" So long as the body is kept in good order, and all its parts duly exercised, the mind will play its... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1835 - 764 pages
...dissolution. Instead of wondering that we die, we have reason to wonder that we live so long ; — " that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long ;" that the water is not sooner spilt ; or we, who are crushed sooner than the moth, retain that life... | |
| Thomas Wood - Christian life - 1837 - 228 pages
...inquiring mind dispassionately contemplates this curious structure, is it not lost in astonishment, that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long ? On what apparently trivial causes do our choicest blessings depend T How soon may the derangement... | |
| Phrenology - 1848 - 536 pages
...breaking down, we are led to exclaim with Dr. Watts, when referring to the body, that it is indeed " Strange, that a harp of a thousand strings Should keep in tune so long." We have come to regard man as a perverted being, the world over. We leave the matter of " original... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 pages
...lines of Dr. Watts are never perceived until we have obtained some acquaintance with the human frame. " Our life contains a thousand strings, And dies if one be gone ; Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long." Strange, indeed ! Is it chance, or is it Providence,... | |
| 1851 - 830 pages
...principles of health, either from ignorance or wilfnlness, instead of appearing strange, it is rather "strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long." As pulmonary consumption is not confined to densely populated localities, but prevails among the population... | |
| Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth - 1852 - 726 pages
...principles of health, either from ignorance or wilfnlness, instead of appearing strange, it is rather "strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long." As pulmonary consumption is not confined to densely populated localities, but prevails among the population... | |
| 1854 - 814 pages
...life is set in motion. "A plank, (says some writer) separates the voyager from eternity :" — so " Our life contains a thousand strings, And dies if one be gone; Strange, that a harp of thousand strings, Should keep in tune so long." The forecastle-man, before referred to, represents... | |
| 1877 - 448 pages
...through all the ground To push us to the tomb, And fierce diseases wait around, To hurf^nortals home. Our life contains a thousand strings, And dies if one be gone, Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long." All who died in England during 1876 were the victims... | |
| Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1862 - 472 pages
...cessation of every pain that one more had gone. Sometimes he exclaimed, " Fearfully and wonderfully made!" "Strange that a harp of a thousand strings should keep in tune so long !" He took his tea as usual, though he could retain nothing but tee, for the blessing of which he often... | |
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