| Samuel Thurber - 1924 - 172 sivua
...NEILSON, in Introduction to Americans by Adoption, by Joseph Husband 39 " 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.... | |
| John Wesley - 1966 - 136 sivua
...September 19, 1725, and appointed Fellow of Lincoln College March 17, 1726. Shortly after he writes, "Leisure and I have taken leave of one another. I...long as I live, if my health is so long indulged me." 2) The seeker after holiness had begun his journey. A few years later, after a sojourn as his father's... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1872 - 554 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... | |
| John Wesley - 1825 - 652 sivua
...unaccomplished. In the prime of life, he observed, " Leisure and I have taken leave of one another: I purpose to be busy as long as I live, if my health is so long indulged to me." To his resolution, thus formed, he rigorously adhered with the most undeviating constancy.... | |
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