Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. Publications - Page 64by Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors - 1916Full view - About this book
| Asahel Clark Kendrick - English poetry - 1871 - 484 pages
...fji>\o ("The milla of the gods grind late, but they grind fine.") GRKKK POET. THE ABOVE PARAPHRASED. THOUGH the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind...patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. Careless seems the Great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...of the good ! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. RETRIBUTION. Тпоттон HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. THE FUTURE. FBOH TH« "ESSAY ON MAN." HEAVEN from all creatureshidesthe... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1872 - 864 pages
...learn ; Something with passion clasp or perish, And in itself to ashes burn. Motto, Hyperion. Book ii. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; l Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all Retrilnition. From the Sinngedichte... | |
| Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...are aware Of half the toils they must encounter there. William Cotcper. 3675. EETKIBUTION, Fact of. de that ev'ry eye Füllow'd with benisons — and...summer there had como A torpor on his frame, which not Henry Wadsworth Lonyfeltoie. 2076. ВЕТВШГПОН, Nature's. A year has ended — let the good... | |
| Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Children - 1872 - 238 pages
...here, soon or late) virtue is always rewarded and vice punished. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. It is this spirit which consecrates the true untruth, the wise foolishness, of fairy tales, and indeed... | |
| Dinah Maria Craik - 1872 - 280 pages
...here, soon or late) virtue is always rewarded and vice punished. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small ; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. It is this spirit which consecrates the true untruth, the wise foolishness, of fairy tales, and indeed... | |
| Science - 1872 - 806 pages
...nations and whole races ere now to powder. Very terrible, though very calm, is outraged Nature : " Though the mills of God grind Slowly, yet they grind exceeding small. Though He sit, and wait with patience, With exactness grinds He all." It is, I believe, one of the most hopeful... | |
| Judaism - 1872 - 554 pages
...nations and whole races ere now to powder. Very terrible, though very calm, is outraged Nature : " Though the mills of God grind Slowly, yet they grind exceeding small Though He sit, and wait with patience, With exactness grinds He all." It is, I believe, one of the most hopeful... | |
| C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1873 - 348 pages
...; Their music frightful — as the serpent's hiss; And boding screech-owls make the concert full." "Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stand waiting, with exactness grinds he all." CHAPTER VI. VOCAL GYMNASTICS, CONTINUED — SOUNDS OF... | |
| Mr. Faversham, Mrs. Woodward, Author of Ellen Clinton - 1873 - 446 pages
...considering the circumstances, I flatter myself that I managed matters pretty well!" 4—3 CHAPTER VI. " Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience stands He waiting, With exactness grinds He all." IT was rather later than usual when Mr. Faversham... | |
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