 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...Carlyle was iu the right — TR. . * Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, ed. Carlyle, 1866, 3 vols., i. 79. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service. . . . Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them . . . and go on ...... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...He died with this prayer : ' Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in Covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee, for Thy People. 1 This passage may serve as an example of the difficulties and perplexities to which a translator of... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1873 - 470 pages
...am 1 Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, ed. Carlyle, 1866, 3 vols. i. 79. 2 Idem, ii. 273. in Covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to...instrument to do them some good, and Thee service. . . . Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them . . . and go on ...... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 736 pages
...respects. " Lord," he muttered, " though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in " covenant with Thee through grace, and I may, I will, come "...though others wish and would be glad of my " death. But, Lord, however Thou dost dispose of me, '• continue and go on to do good for them. Give them... | |
 | David Masson - 1877 - 732 pages
...respects. " Lord," he muttered, " though. I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in " covenant with Thee through grace, and I may, I will, come "...though others wish and would be glad of my " death. But, Lord, however Thou dost dispose of me, " continue and go on to do good for them. Give them con"... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1877 - 472 pages
...am 1 Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, ed. Carlyle, 1866, 3 vols. i. 79. 1 Idem, ii. 273. in Covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to...instrument to do them some good, and Thee service. . . . Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them . . . and go on ...... | |
 | Elizabeth Rundle Charles - English fiction - 1877 - 528 pages
...Highness was praying thus : — " Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched sinner, I am in covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee for Thy people. Thou has made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee some service; and... | |
 | Gibson Craig - Biography - 1879 - 320 pages
...you, it is not good that you should love the world. Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched sinner, Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do Thy people some good." And then he prayed for the people of England, that God would lead them on in... | |
 | Andrew Reed - Great Britain - 1880 - 474 pages
...a groom of the chamber : — "Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in covenant with Thee through grace, and I may, I will come to...unworthy) a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee some sen-ice. Many of them have set too high a value on me — though others would be glad of my death.... | |
 | John Stoughton - Great Britain - 1881 - 516 pages
...end, which was as followeth: " Lord, although I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in covenant with Thee through grace, and I may, I will, come to...me, though others wish and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however Thou dost dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them. Give them consistency... | |
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Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service ; and many of them have set too high a value upon me, though others wish, and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue... 
