 | Pierre-Daniel Huet - Bishops - 1810 - 408 pages
...youth, the allurements of the world, and the pleasures of-study, which by their variety so filled ray breast, and closed up all its inlets with an infinite...thoughts, that it gave no admission to those intimate and charming ing conferences with the Supreme Being. Ui>der this imbecility of soul with respect to divine... | |
 | Mark Pattison - Fiction - 1889 - 518 pages
...careful regulation of my future days pursuant to the injunctions of the Divine law. And oh ! that I had in earnest adhered to my engagements! but I too...filled my breast, and closed up all its inlets with an infinity of thought, that it gave no admission to those intimate and charming conferences with the... | |
 | Mordechai Feingold - History - 2003 - 508 pages
...conviction that he had allowed himself to be "borne away by the fire of youth, the allurements of the world, which by their variety so filled my breast, and closed up all its inlet with an infinite number of thoughts, that it gave no admission to those intimate and charming... | |
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I resolved to set apart an entire week for the attentive recollection of all the errors of my past life, and the more careful regulation of my future days pursuant to the injunctions of the Divine law. And oh ! that I had in earnest adhered to my engagements... 