...beginning of this year, I select from his private register the following passage : "July 25, 1776. O GOD, who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired...upon my studies and endeavours. Grant me, O LORD, todesign only what is lawful and right ; and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose,...

...honest labour to good effect, look with mercy upon my studies and endeavours. Grant me, O LORD, todesign only what is lawful and right ; and afford me calmness...mind, and steadiness of purpose, that I may so do thy wil) in this short life, as to obtain happiness in the world to come, for the sake of JESUS CHRIST...

...that thy peace which passeth understanding may keep our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. A men. O God, who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired should be sought by labor, and who, by thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect: look with favor upon our endeavors....

...that thy peace which passeth understanding may keep our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. A men. O God, who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired should be sought by labor, and who, by thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect: look with favor upon our endeavors....

...being desirous to see. I select from his private register the following pass.age : "July 25, 1776. 0 God, who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired should be sought by labor, and who by thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect, look with mercy upon my studies...

...1776.' 'SAM. JOHNSON.' I select from his private register the following passage: 'July 25, 1776. 0 GOD, who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired...with mercy upon my studies and endeavours. Grant me, 0 LORD, to design only what is lawful and right; and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of...

...and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. AMEN. Robert Louis Stevenson 31 OGOD, who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired, should be sought by labor, and who, by Thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect; look with mercy upon my studies...

...deep-voiced organ in the sonorous roll of his solemn and majestic periods. Truly his prayer, "O God, who bringest honest labour to good effect, look with mercy upon my studies and endeavours," seems to have been answered. EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797) If the almost antithetical epithets "prose Poet...

...to employ the next six weeks upon the Italian language, for my settled study' " (IV. 13 4-3 5); " 'o GOD, who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired should be sought by labour . . . look with mercy upon my studies. . . .' This was composed when he 'purposed to apply vigorously...

...beginning of this year, I select from his private register the following passage: 'July 25, 1776. O GOn, who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired should...mercy upon my studies and endeavours. Grant me, O LORn, to design only what is lawful and right; and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose,...