 | 1819 - 552 pages
...Redmond Everard, and Atterbury, bishop of Rochester. The rest of the company I do not exactly remember. During the dinner there was a jocular dispute (I forget...common soldier just before the battle of Blenheim, " 0 God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!" This was followed by a general laugh.... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1820 - 442 pages
...Atterbury, that the shortest prayer he had ever heard was that of a common soldier just before tfje jbatt^ of Blenheim : " O God, if there be a God, save my...have a soul." This was followed by a general laugh. Atterbury seemed to join in the conversation, and applying himself to Sir W. Wyndham, said, " Your... | |
 | United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...Edmond Everard, and Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. The rest of the company I do not remember. During dinner, there was a jocular dispute, (I forget how...common soldier, just before the battle of Blenheim — ' 0 God! if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul /' This was followed by a general laugh.... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 624 pages
...dinner there was a jocular dispute, (I forget " how it was introduced) concerning short pray" ers. Sir William Wyndham told us that " the shortest prayer...common soldier, just before " the battle of Blenheim : ' Oh God, if there be " a God, save my soul, if I have a soul !' This " was followed by a general... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 374 pages
...gentlemen, were present, a jocular dispute arose on the subject of short prayers. Sir William Wyndham said, the shortest prayer he had ever heard, was the prayer...have a soul." This was followed by a general laugh, a treatment of the subject too ludicrous, at least very improper, where a learned prelate was one of... | |
 | 1827 - 396 pages
...their tenets. For it contains in it the very essence of the Hume philosopby. The prayer was this, " О God — if there be a God — save my soul — if I have a eoul." What a contrast between this genuine prayer of the infidel, and the prayer of the devout Christian.... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...was introduced) concerning short prayers. Sir William Wyndham told us, that the shortest prayer be had ever heard was the prayer of a common soldier, just before the battle of Blenheim, — " О Goil, if there be a God, sate my soul, if I hare a soul!" This was followed by a general laugh.... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American wit and humor - 1836 - 322 pages
...the company, among whom was Bishop Atterbury, that the shortest prayer he had ever heard, was that of a common soldier, just before the battle of Blenheim...have a soul !" This was followed by a general laugh. Atterbury seemed to join in the conversation, and, applying himself to Sir William Wyndham, said, "... | |
 | William Craig Brownlee - Anti-Catholicism - 1836 - 400 pages
...did you never hear the famous prayer of the soldier at the battle of Blenheim, — it was this, — ' O God ! if there be a God, save my soul, — if I have a soul!' You know the application, and my meaning ?" " So ! I understand you — you will deliver our souls,... | |
 | James M. Horner - 1836 - 228 pages
...did you never hear the famous prayer of the soldier at the battle of Blenheim, — it was this, — ' O God ! if there be a God, save my soul, — if I have a soul!' You know the application, and my meaning ?" " So ! I understand you — you will deliver our souls,... | |
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O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul! 
