 | 1791 - 610 trang
...charged at the battle of Edge-hill, made this fliort prayer, * О Lord, thou knoweft how bufy I muft be this day : if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.' * To the cour fe of prayers for a week are added, Prayers and "Thankigivings for particular Occafions,... | |
 | Jabez (uncle.) - 1799 - 242 trang
...reality that used by Lord Ashley before the * Psalm xxxvii. 25. battle of Edgehill. It ran thus: " 0 Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me." I used to think it a beautiful petition, knowing how apt I was to forget God ; and I think so still.... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - 544 trang
...Astley who, before he charged at the battle of Edgehill, made this short prayer, OLord! tfiott tnowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thouforeet me. And with that rose up, and cry'd March on boys ! Warwick, p. 229. There were certainly... | |
 | George Horne - 1808 - 320 trang
...The good before him, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use. PL iv. 196. 8. Lord Astley, before he charged, at the battle of Edgehill,...thee, do not thou forget me !" There were certainly, says Hume, much longer prayers said in the parliamentary army; but I doubt if there was so good an... | |
 | 1811 - 432 trang
...ASTLEY. LORD ASTLEY, before he charged at the battle of Edcchiil, made this short prayer :— ' Ó Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this, day. If I fJr8et thec, do not tho» forget me !" « There were certainly,' says Hume, ' much longer prayers made... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 544 trang
...Astley who, before he charged at the battle of Edgehill, made this short prayer, 0 Lord ! t/jou knowcst ho<w busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not tbou forget me. And with that rose up, and cry'd March on toys! Warwick, p. 229. There were certainly... | |
 | Sir Philip Warwick - 1813 - 506 trang
...excellent, pious, short, and soldierly prayer : for he lifted up his eyes and hands to heaven, saying, " O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me :" and with that rose up, crying out, " March on, boys !" for the king had given order that until the... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 trang
...The good before him, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use. PL iv. 196. 8. Lord Astley, before he charged, at the battle of Edgehill,..."thee, do not thou forget me!" There were certainly, says Hume, much longer prayers said in the parliamentary army ; but I doubt if there was so good a... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1837 - 668 trang
...charged at the battle of Edgebil), (fought between Charles I. and the rebellious Parliamentary forces,) made this short prayer: "O Lord, thou knowest how...this day ; if I forget thee, do not thou forget me." LORD, is IT I ? Lord, is it I that shall betray The blessed Saviour, who for me hath died? Or cease... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1821 - 596 trang
...parliamentary army, but it may be doubted whether there were so good a one. It was simply this : ' O Lord ! thou knowest how busy I must be this day ! If I forget thee, do not thou forget me.' He now concluded his brave and irreproachable career, by a saying not less to be remembered by the... | |
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O Lord, thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget thee, do not thou forget me. 
