 | Philip Doddridge - 1802 - 626 pagini
...foolish heart draws back from the yoke: yet I stretch myself upon the bed of sloth, and cry out for a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep\. Thus does my corrupt heart plead for its own indulgence, against the convictions... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1802 - 644 pagini
...foolish heart draws back from the yoke: yet I stretch myself upon the bed of sloth, and cry out for a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep%. Thus does my corrupt heart plead for its own indulgence, against the convictions... | |
 | Thomas Haweis - 1803 - 344 pagini
...comes, with what reluctance do you rise ? It is too soon, it is too cold, saith every man's natural sloth. "A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep ;" (Prov. xxi v. 33.) necessity urges you to rise : but the same temper follows... | |
 | Nathan Elliot - 1808 - 318 pagini
...Thus deceived by the love of sin, you are in your spiritual concerns, crying, with the sluggard, ' A little more sleep a little more slumber; a little more folding of the hands to sleep ;' all shall yet be well. But had Lot persisted in deceiving himself, by arguing... | |
 | John Skinner - 1809 - 582 pagini
...keep from hearing it, so far it works ' irre' sistibly* upon him ; but his slothful desire after ' a ' little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little ' more folding of the hands to sleep *,' hinders him from complying with it, as does the willing, active, industrious... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - 416 pagini
...him in the day of the Lord's wrath;" anoiher appears utterly secure and indifferent ; lie is asking "a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep," as if this momentary ease could profit him at the hazard of never-ending confusion... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pagini
...you in your graves, " Arise, ye dead, and come to judgment," do not regard him; but calmly say, " Yet a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep." When Christ calls to you by name, " How is it that I hear this of thee? give... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - 1815 - 384 pagini
...uprightly, and not consult with his sloth in the case, for that will still, with Solomon.s sluggard, cry, a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep, Prov. xxii. 33. (p. Another pious writer (in the Christian Observer, 1804. p.... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 664 pagini
...lead them from ruin ; they promise to hear at a more convenient season : they demand time for moving: A little more sleep, a little more slumber^ a little more folding of the hands to sleep. » Hence we may account for many objections that are made to our labours. The... | |
 | 1817 - 364 pagini
...words : Choose a more peaceful image : — here, reveal'd Shines a small sample of my golden hoards. SLOTH. ' A LITTLE more sleep, a little more slumber,...order or number, Over my mind are beginning to creep, — Rare is the happiness thus to be raptured By your wild whispers, my Fanciful train, And, like a... | |
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