 | John Charles Ryle - 1869 - 444 sivua
...one year. He was to all appearance always working, and never at rest. " Leisure and I," he said, " have taken leave of one another. I propose to be busy...as long as I live, if my health is so long indulged to me." This resolution was made in the prime of life ; and never was resolution more punctually observed.... | |
 | Luke Tyerman - 1870 - 590 sivua
...But as I could not give him such an answer as he desired, I did not choose to give him any at all. " Leisure and I have taken leave of one another. I propose...long as I live, if my health is so long indulged me. In health and sickness I hope I shall ever continue with the same sincerity, " Your loving brother,... | |
 | 1872 - 566 sivua
...and till within a few months of his death preached regularly twice a day. " Leisure and I," he said, "have taken leave of " one another. I propose to be...long as I live, if my health is " so long indulged to me." As he walked through the streets with his long hair, white and bright as silver, flowing over... | |
 | 1878 - 446 sivua
...years of his busy life were spent. Few lives have been so full of work. ' Leisure and I,' said he, ' have taken leave of one another. I propose to be busy as long as I live, if my health is so long spared me.' Even the time he spent on horseback he would not leave unoccupied. He had always a book... | |
 | James Harrison Rigg - 1875 - 252 sivua
...extraordinary. " Leisure and I," he said in a letter to his brother Samuel, written about this time, " have taken leave of one another. I propose to be busy...long as I live, if my health is so long indulged me." From the time of his receiving his first college-allowances as Fellow, Wesley's financial battle was... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 sivua
...through all this occupation : ' Leisure and I,' said Wesley, ' have taken leave of one another. I purpose to be busy as long as I live, if my health is so long indulged to pK.' This resolution was made in the prime of life, and never was resolution more punctually observed.... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 sivua
...them. Wesley's Old Age and Death. From Soutluy's Life o/Jahit Wcsky. 'Leisure and I,' said Wesley, 'have taken leave of one another. I propose to be...as long as I live, if my health is so long indulged to me.' This resolution was made in the prime of life, and never was resolution more punctually observed.... | |
 | 1879 - 652 sivua
...recreation. Industry is not an eccentricity. John Wesley was always busy. "Leisure and I," he •writes, " have taken leave of one another. I propose to be busy...long as I live, if my health is so long indulged me." " Lord, let me not live to be useless," was the prayer he uttered after seeing one whom he had long... | |
 | F. E. Cooke - 1879 - 280 sivua
...had been dear to them, were called away ; and still, John Wesley, an old man, lived on, saying, — "I propose to be busy as long as I live, if my health endure so long." He too held the faith, that if God buries His workmen, He carries on His work; and... | |
 | Frederick Sherlock - 1881 - 306 sivua
...do, that he was able to declare, " Leisure and I have taken leave of one another ; I propose to be as busy as long as I live, if my health is so long indulged to me." In 1738 he returned to England. Frequent conversations with a sincere German friend, Peter... | |
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have taken leave of one another. I propose to be busy as long as I live, if my health is so long indulged to me. 
