 | Thomas Henry Braim - New South Wales - 1846 - 356 pages
...hear many things not suitable to the character he bore, or might be betrayed into alter-, cations, or party feuds still more at variance with it. As...present time, we should consider this to be nearer the truth : — morning service, fourteen hundred; afternoon, five hundred ; evening, one thousand, in... | |
 | Children with social disabilities - 1851 - 556 pages
...number refer to it again, and cull from its pages in order to enrich our own. PEISON SCENES. No. I. " That it may please Thee to show Thy pity upon all prisoners and captives." — Litany of Cliwrch of England. THE opinions entertained by many persons respecting prisons and prisoners,... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - Animal welfare - 1854 - 362 pages
...these : " From hardness of heart, and contempt of Thy word and commandment ; " Good Lord, deliver us. " That it may please Thee to show Thy pity upon all prisoners and captives ; " We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord." J CHAPTER XVI. GROUND VARIOUS, MOTTLED WITH GREEN OR BROWN.... | |
 | Francis Procter - 1856 - 540 pages
...contentedness and patience, of true justice, of temperance and purity, of peaceableness and charity.' ' That it may please Thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives, upon all that are persecuted for truth and righteousness' sake, upon all that are in affliction.' It... | |
 | Orby Shipley - Prisoners - 1857 - 168 pages
...AND NEW BOND STREET. OXFORD: JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. MDCCCLVII. rtr VARD UNiv,R,JTYl LIBRARY " THAT IT MAY PLEASE THEE .... TO SHOW THY PITY UPON ALL PRISONERS AND CAPTIVES .... AND TO TURN THEIR HEARTS ; WE BESEECH THEE TO HEAB US, OOOli LORD." THE LITANY. LONDON : J'ltl.NTEU... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 pages
...super flumina, which has been, we think, the key-note to that most touching prayer in our Litany, " That it may please thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives :" " How shall they sing God's song in the strange land? For it is native of the temple, laid, Like... | |
 | Henry Mayhew, John Binny - Correctional institutions - 1862 - 740 pages
...World, have mercy upon us, miserable sinners !" Or else, in answer to the prayer of the minister, " that it may please thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives !" say one and all, " We beseech thec to hear us, good Lord !" Indeed, the attention of the men is... | |
 | Christian life - 1868 - 904 pages
...oh! there is freedom — friendship there — but in the cell! I like the prayer on Sunday morning, " That it may please Thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives." Of course, people who have a notion that prayer should be chiefly connected with personal spiritual... | |
 | Gilbert Haven - History - 1869 - 680 pages
...uttered them and I fervently followed him: "We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, 0 Lord God; and that it may please thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives ; that it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 346 pages
...cognates by way of figure of speech. A trace of it remains in the litany of the Church of England: — 'That it may please Thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives.' Dining well and in freedom, and especially dining with one's invited friends, was an incident of enlargement... | |
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God; and that it may please thee to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives... 
