 | William James E. Bennett - 1847 - 380 pages
...most bitter contrition of my heart, I heard, from a neighbouring house, a voice, as of boy or girl, chanting, and oft repeating, ' Take up and read, take up and read.'.... I began to think intently whether children were wont, in any kind of play, to sing such words ; nor... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 532 pages
...bitter contrition of my heart, when I heard from a neighbouring house, a voice, as of a boy or girl, chanting, and oft repeating: 'Take up and read! Take up and read!' Instantly my countenance changed. I began to think intently whether children were accustomed to sing such words, in any kind... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 490 pages
...bitter contrition of my heart, when I heard from a neighbouring house, a voice, as of a boy or girl, chanting, and oft repeating: 'Take up and read ! Take up and read !' Instantly my countenance changed. I began to think intently whether children were accustomed to sing such words, in any kind... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1859 - 484 pages
...contrition of my heart," he says, " when, lo ! I heard from a neighbouring house a voice as of a child, chanting and oft repeating, ' Take up and read, take...Instantly my countenance altered ; I began to think whether children were wont in play to sing such words, nor could I remember ever to have heard the... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1859 - 474 pages
...contrition of my heart," he says, " when, lo ! I heard from a neighbouring house a voice as of a child, chanting and oft repeating, ' Take up and read, take...Instantly my countenance altered ; I began to think whether children were wont in play to sing such words, nor could I remember ever to have heard the... | |
 | John Baillie - 1859 - 324 pages
...heart," when suddenly there fell upon his ear, from a neighbouring house, " a voice, as of a boy or girl, chanting, and oft repeating — 'Take up and read! take up and read!'" Not more startling to Saul of Tarsus was the light, and the voice, that day, on the way to Damascus.... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1860 - 468 pages
...weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo ! I heard from a neighboring house a voice, as of boy or girl, I know not, chanting, and oft repeating,..."Take up and read ; Take up and read." Instantly, my coun1 Psalm vi. 4. 2 Psalm Ixxix. 6, 8. 204 Determined at length tcnance altered, I began to think... | |
 | William Benham - 1865 - 254 pages
...contrition of my heart,' he says, ' when, lo ! I heard from a neighbouring house, a voice as of a child, chanting and oft repeating, " Take up and read ! —...Instantly my countenance altered ; I began to think whether children were wont in play to sing such words, nor could I remember ever to have heard the... | |
 | Thomas William Allies - 1865 - 436 pages
...well known for me to quote. At length he hears a voice, as of a boy or girl from a neighbouring house, chanting and oft repeating, " Take up and read, take up and read." " Returning to the place where Alypius was sitting, for there had I laid the volume of the Apostle... | |
 | Methodist preachers - 1866 - 332 pages
...up, and read.' And presently, my countenance being altered, I began, with much attention, to consider whether children were wont, in any kind of play, to sing such words : nor could I call to mind, that I had anywhere heard the like. " Whereupon, suppressing the course of my tears,... | |
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To-morrow,' and ' To-morrow.' Why not now ? Why not is there this hour an end to my uncleanness ? So was I speaking, and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo ! I heard from a neighbouring house a voice as of boy or girl, I know... 
