 | 1869 - 506 pagina’s
...coward all Me life long. "We cannot escape death, and should it happen to me in this place, remember it is the will of Him in whose hands are the issues of life and death." By some strange omission, his services were overlooked and unrewarded. Nelson felt himself neglected.... | |
 | Maggie Symington - 1872 - 474 pagina’s
...least neglect to me or your mamma. If you do not feel that you can commit yourself in all confidence to Him, in whose hands are the issues of life and death, I shall be more satisfied for you to go." " I think my answer will be the same to-morrow morning as to-night,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1877 - 48 pagina’s
...of his talents, his eminent public services, and his many virtues. We bow with humble resignation to the will of Him in whose hands are the issues of life and death, and with sorrowful hearts we now desire to inscribe on our records this imperfect tribute of reverence... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1878 - 40 pagina’s
...is a proud distinction. In the name of these kind ladies we assure you, that when in tne providence of Him, in whose hands are the issues of life and death, you shall rejoin the comp«">r»r>«h;p of the good and the brave who have gone before— the good... | |
 | Peabody education fund - 1881 - 478 pagina’s
...of his talents, his eminent public services, and his many virtues. We bow with humble resignation to the will of Him in whose hands are the issues of life and death ; and with sorrowful hearts we now desire to inscribe on our Records this imperfect tribute of reverence... | |
 | James Burnley - 1888 - 496 pagina’s
...Majesty's protection, the encouragement of a generous nation, and, above all, the favour and the blessing of Him in whose hands are the issues of life and death, without whose aid the wisdom of the wise will be frustrated and the best -exertions of human industry... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1895 - 494 pagina’s
...to get through the winter. The spring, however, is at hand ; and with a heart full of gratitude to Him in whose hands are the issues of life and death, I find myself not only able to take my usual part in the services of your Church, but to look forward... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1897 - 572 pagina’s
...nearer," his confidence remains unabated. "I have no fears about the final issue," he writes to his wife ; "it will be victory, Bastia will be ours ; and if...the history of England can hardly boast an equal." Further on in the same letter he makes a prediction, so singularly accurate as to excite curiosity... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1901 - 418 pagina’s
...dean, entering, "not finally in that, nor firstly either, Miss Thirkleby, but first and finally in Him in whose hands are the issues of life and death." " I meant," stammered Georgie, " after the crisis is over — then comes in the beef tea. After all, that... | |
 | Jessie Peabody Frothingham - 1902 - 430 pagina’s
...writes from before Bastia: "Recollect that a brave man dies but once, a coward all his life long. ... I have no fears about the final issue of the expedition; it will be victory — Bastia will be ours." On the 30th of May forty-five hundred French troops laid down their arms to twelve hundred British... | |
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Only recollect that a brave man dies but once, a coward all his life long. We cannot escape death ; and should it happen to me in this place, remember, it is the will of Him, in whose hands are the issues of life and death. 
